Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Profile Publisher is an excellent interactive tool from ReadWriteThink we are re-featuring here in EdTech and mLearning for the second time. Students can use it to create mock or fake social media networking profiles. It is similar to other popular tool called Fakebook. 

In our new remote teaching and learning environments students may find themselves having to look things up online more than ever before. Even if you're hosting online class meetings in Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams there will still be lots of time when students need to do some research on their own. This is a good time to remind students about some basic search strategies like creating a search checklist and consulting vocabulary lists as part of the search process. Once they've done those basics it might be time for them to try some other search tools that often get overlooked.

One of the biggest concerns of student researchers and academics is access to scientific knowledge stored in the form of journal articles. Many of these articles are not free and unless you are affiliated with a higher education institution, it will cost you a fortune to buy or rent these resources.