Digital and information literacy

This guide provides common-sense tips about how to avoid online theft and the mining of data by advertisers and others.

With computers, tablets, and smartphones offering us access to online information just about anywhere we have Wi-Fi or cell service, the next step is to make those searches as efficient as possible. Readers will get a step-by-step overview of how to make the most of their search activities so they can get the information they want and need with just a few keystrokes, swipes, or clicks. Tips and tricks will help readers get started right away. This instructive resource is a must have for teens starting to work on research papers.

This helpful instructional title goes far beyond the simplistic directive (3z(BJust look online!(3y (Bthat many young researchers may be given when they are assigned school research. With so many resources online, ranging from academically rigorous to sloppy and suspect, the modern young researcher needs to be armed with strategies and tools that will yield the best information and help him or her organize and present that information effectively. In a modern school environment, the digital tools discussed in this book go a long way toward insuring success and excellence.

This book offers young people ways to amplify their voices and build community via this dynamic tool, while staying focused and safe.

There is growing concern over how we behave and interact online, from fighting, incivility, rudeness, and even criminal behaviors like cyberbullying, to simply adapting old forms of etiquette to a new landscape. This book, updated from an earlier resource, provides younger readers an introduction to this timely topic, a subject that they are both engaged in forming themselves as "digital natives," and one they also often require guidance in. It informs readers about the polite and productive use of social media networks and mobile platforms and discusses pressing issues of etiquette within families, among friends, and in educational settings.

Explains what disinformation is, why and how people distort facts, the difference between fact and opinion, and how to deal with the distortion of facts in online information.

Teens learn what rights they have, what powers schools possess, and what parts of the law are still in flux. Perhaps most important, they learn how to be activists rather than victims, effectively advocating for themselves and others.

Readers will learn how to create their own videos and YouTube channels, along with information on how to use social media to promote their channel and build a solid audience base.

This succinct title breaks down the complex mechanisms behind audio and video streaming and explains them in terms a middle-school-aged audience can understand. This volume introduces the concept of streaming and then explains how it works and what its uses are. Along the way, important digital terminology and concepts are introduced, such as bandwidth, codecs, plugins, and protocol. A discussion of Internet safety and how to produce and share streaming content wraps up this enlightening text.

Text and color illustrations explore how to start a video blog, as well as tips for connecting with cyber communities, sharing them on social media platforms, and how to engage comments left on your channel.