Showing posts with label investigative searching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label investigative searching. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Fifth BadApple Challenge and Scoring

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  Just added: a fifth Challenge to our new Bad Apple investigation game. This one tests individual skills using a current controversy in the...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Election Year Bias

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  If you are looking for examples of bias , it's hard to beat an election year. The 2020 national election in the United States stands o...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Spring 18 Full Circle Kit now available

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The newest edition of the 21st Century Information Fluency Full Circle Kit focuses on Fact Checking. This is part three of three in a se...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

WSI: Web Site Investigator

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Dennis O'Connor is having students in his online course at the University of Wisconsin-Stout work through the activities in Web Site I...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Citation Challenges

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Tracking down missing information for a citation can be frustrating. Even though citation styles like MLA, Chicago and APA make allowances...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

A Shark, a Kayak and a Tree Octopus

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Back in May 2009 I posted a visual information fluency challenge about a shark and a kayak. I'm revisiting that challenge because of ...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Searching for the Correct Answer

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The new report from  Project Information Literacy  describes the research predicament students face as they go to college.  84 percent of ...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?

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Multi-tasking and the Internet, both are suspected of making us more stupid. From Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing ( lecture ) to an HP st...
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Friday, October 9, 2009

Is Reading Believing?

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Unfortunately for many students, reading is believing. There could have been a time when information that appeared in print may have been...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Yes, There's a Need

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Take a good look at this chart. What do you see? A normal distribution with a negative skew? A test that's too hard? A need for improve...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Information Forensics Goes To School

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In case you want to view the presentation Dennis O'Connor and I gave at NECC 2009, here it is:
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Finding the Black Box

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Homing in on information online is similar to locating a downed aircraft's black box in one respect: both send out signals. In the case...
Friday, May 29, 2009

Five Keys to Investigative Searching

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When it comes right down to it, there aren't a lot of techniques involved in investigative searching. As opposed to speculative searchin...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Tracking down the Loose Ends

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Does this ever happen to you? You've located a relevant resource that you want to cite, but when you look for the name of the author--o...
Monday, July 14, 2008

Embedded Evidence, External Evidence

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Over the weekend I created two new tutorial resources for the Website Investigator series (WSI): Accuracy and Evidence. In addition to know...