Digital Detectives

Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World

Nonfiction, Computers, Database Management, Information Storage & Retrievel, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Library & Information Services, Reference
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Author: Crystal Fulton, Claire McGuinness ISBN: 9780081001318
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication: May 5, 2016
Imprint: Chandos Publishing Language: English
Author: Crystal Fulton, Claire McGuinness
ISBN: 9780081001318
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Publication: May 5, 2016
Imprint: Chandos Publishing
Language: English

Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to use the information in a discerning way to successfully complete academic tasks. Enabling students to select and use information appropriately empowers them to function at a higher level of digital information fluency, acting as discerning consumers of, and effective contributors to, web-based information.

  • Offers a situated, problem-solving approach to deepen students’ analytical and research skills
  • Explores a practical, real-life dilemma that is typically experienced by undergraduates in the course of their academic work, especially those transitioning from secondary to third-level education
  • Focuses on the authentic educational needs of undergraduates as expressed by educators, but also students themselves
  • Addresses a specific central dilemma which is identified at the outset, but also uses the opportunity to reveal to students the broader contextual issues which frame the problem they are exploring
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Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to use the information in a discerning way to successfully complete academic tasks. Enabling students to select and use information appropriately empowers them to function at a higher level of digital information fluency, acting as discerning consumers of, and effective contributors to, web-based information.

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