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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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8 Sites and Resources That Help Students Check Their Facts

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With all the information they ever need right at their fingertips, it is imperative to teach students how to check their facts. Unfortunately, it can be challenging to know what is true and false, and students are struggling deciphering the truths from the falsehoods. According to Stanford University, their research “shows a dismaying inability by students to reason about information they see on the Internet, the authors said. Students, for example, had a hard time distinguishing advertisements from news articles or identifying where information came from.”
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The 5 Elements Students Should Look For When Evaluating Web Content | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The 5 Elements Students Should Look For When Evaluating Web Content | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

In a section in her wonderful book "Understanding The Social Lives of Networked Teens" Danah Boyd talked extensively about the concept of digital natives and argued that this nomenclature does not really capture the essence of what a digitally savvy teenager really means. Dana argued that the mere fact of being comfortable with a social media tool does not prove that the user has a digital fluency to allow them to better use it for educational purposes :

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The Lesson from a Hoax — Annoyed Librarian

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Something shocking has happened in the world of information. It turns out that there was an error in the Wikipedia, a deliberate error introduced into an article for fun by a couple of stoned college students. This is as shocking as the time that other factual error was found on the Internet.

The hoax, such as it was, concerned the fictional character Amelia Bedelia, stating that she was based upon a maid in Cameroon where her author spent some time growing up.

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