digital_literacy

Day 1: Are you digitally literate PPT w/discussion **UPDATE: PPT has been updated, saved to shared drive. CPS questions to accompany PPT also created**.

Day 2: Doing a formal website evaluation (using both real and "fake" sites)


 * UPDATE--Hoax Websites:**
 * NW Tree Octopus: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
 * All About Explorers: http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/
 * Dihydrogen Monoxide: http://www.dhmo.org/
 * Buy Dehydrated Water: http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
 * Dog Island: http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html
 * The Dangers of Bread: http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/bread.html
 * Presidential Election: http://www.news3online.com/spread.php

Day 3: Reviewing domain names (p.8), addresses, extensions

Day 4: Global Warming activity (p.17)

Day 5: Looking at "fake" sites: How do we know they are not real? Looking at full URLs (trimming them back--"truncating"); "link" test
 * Teach the "ABCs of Website Evaluation"
 * [|The ABCs of Website Evaluation.doc]
 * Evaluating Digital Information: http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/challenge/evaluation/author.swf

Day 6: Search engines; comparison activity (p. 15)

Day 7: Google Advanced Search: Overview; reading a search results page
 * [|BrainPop Video:] "Internet Search"

Day 8:Google Search Challenge

Day 9: Citing sources

Day 10:Triangulation--take a fact from Wikipedia and find three sources to support using techniques learned in prior two weeks.

Digital Literacy a. Understanding the grammar of the Internet b. Studying fact from fiction on the web—evaluating the value of a websit c. Critical thinking when using the Internet d. Choosing appropriate technology tools to problem-solve e. Research fluency—advanced research techniques

__Possible Resources__


 * 1) [|Welcome to the Information Literacy Resource Page.]
 * 2) [|Teacher Tips, Tools, and Tutorials]
 * 3) [|digitalliteracy]
 * 4) [|Nine Needs for Web Literacy | 21st Century Connections]
 * 5) [|Web Literacy for Educators]
 * 6) [|Web Literacy for Educators]
 * 7) [|21st Century Literacy Skills]

Ideas: 1. Start with the PowerPoint quiz 2. Google search/advanced search 3. Website evaluation/hoax sites; techniques for determining legitimacy 4. Understanding a web address 5. Citing sources; who owns/updates the information 6. Wikipedia and triangulation

What do we do at the end of the two weeks or quarter to show that they understand this topic? Culminating Activity
 * Must be applied learning
 * Google Search Challenge (practicing Google search tricks)
 * [|Google Search Challenge.doc]
 * Screencasting the search process using [|freescreencast.com (]requires login) or [|Jingproject.com] (requires download)
 * Developing a classroom wiki with individual student pages