Teaching Information Fluency
Subtitle: How to Teach Students to Be Efficient, Ethical, and Critical Information Consumers
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers; Scarecrow Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780810890626
Description: "Describes the skills and dispositions of information fluency adept searchers. Readers will receive in-depth information on what it takes to locate, evaluate, and ethically use digital information. The book realistically examines the abilities of Internet searchers today in terms of their efficiency and effectiveness in finding online information, evaluating it and using it ethically. Since the majority of people develop these skills on their own, rather than being taught, the strategies they invent may suffice for simple searches, but for more complex tasks, such as those required by academic and professional work, the average person's performance is adequate only about 50% of the time."--
Table of contents: title: List of Figures; title: List of Tables; title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Prologue; title: Part 1: Digital Information Fluency; title: Chapter 1: Digital Information Fluency in an Age of Information Consumption; title: Chapter 2: Information Fluency, Achievement and the Common Core; title: Part 2: Speculative Searching; title: Chapter 3: Self-taught Search Box Strategies; title: Chapter 4: Internet Search Challenges; title: Part 3: Investigative Searching; title: Chapter 5: Investigative Searching; title: Chapter 6: Investigative Case Study; title: Part 4: Ethical and Fair Use; title: Chapter 7: Ethical Consumption; title: Part 5: Instructional Applications; title: Chapter 8: Embedding Information Fluency; title: Chapter 9: Curation: Applied Information Fluency; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix: Model Lessons; title: Bibliography; title: Index