Showing posts with label information fluency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label information fluency. Show all posts
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Beyond Information Literacy?

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  The differences between illiteracy, literacy and fluency are fuzzy, at best, when it comes to digital information competencies. The Spring...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Online Security Guide for Parents

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We regularly receive resources to share on our links site . The most recent is an article on Digital Safety for Children authored and publis...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Winter 2022 Full Circle Kit Release

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  In the new Full Circle Kit for Winter 2022 we feature two guest authors. Patrick Dennis, an Adobe associate, contacted us with a resource...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

The Importance of Information Fluency

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Today we feature a guest post from freelance author Anna Medina. She contacted us recently with this article about Information Fluency and i...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Sixth Bad Apple Case

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  Just added: a new Bad Apple evaluation challenge: Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus . For years, we've used the endangered Pacif...
Monday, October 18, 2021

A Fourth BAD APPLE Challenge

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Just added, another BAD APPLE Challenge: Challenge 4: North Shore Whale Watching   Here's a trustworthy tourism site with a section on w...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Bad Apples

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  Introducing the (re)release of Bad Apples, a series of do-it-yourself evaluation tutorials. With the demise of Adobe Flash, a lot of inter...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Information Fluency in a Nutshell

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Most sites that provide resources to help individuals improve their ability to locate, evaluate and use information from online sources desc...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Twitter fooled by Fake Candidate

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A few election cycles ago, there was the story of Susie Flynn running for President. It was a hoax published by a media company to attract...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Elementary Workshop Refreshed

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Especially for those who teach younger students, the Elementary Workshop is a user-guided resource that may be used to introduce and reinf...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Information Researcher is up and running

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  A refresh of Information Researcher is now available. This assessment and tutorial package identifies weaknesses and strengthens skil...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

US students fall short in 'fake news' digital literacy tasks

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Finnish sources recently shared the results of a study at an international school in which students "significantly outperformed U.S. ...

Introducing the 15 Challenges

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Confused by where or how to get started on the path to Information Fluency? Introducing the 15 Challenges, a new portal to Information F...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Advanced Searching

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As part of developing curriculum strands to make it easier to use our site, we're pleased to announce a new MicroModule on Advanced Se...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

98% Gullibility?

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"Only 2 per cent of children and young people can tell if a news story is real or fake, according to a survey published today." ...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Summer Full Circle Resource Kit

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Bias Detection is the newest Kit in the Full Circle series . One of the most popular MicroModules on the Information Fluency site is Bia...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

A New Framework for Fluency?

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This article caught my eye today: Reimagining Information Literacy Competencies  by Barbie E. Keiser...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Information Students Care About

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Motivation, no doubt, is a factor in how well students search, evaluate and use digital information. If you really care about the informat...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Resolutions for Information Fluency

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If becoming more fluent in digital information is one of your goals for 2012, I have a few suggestions. Readers are welcome to add to th...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Yes, There's a Need - Part 3

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When people aren't sure what else to do, they resort to browsing. While using a query or truncating a url might be a faster solution t...
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