electronic information resource literacy

Examines how thieves use the Internet to perpetrate scams and hoaxes.

Examines the pros and cons of technology in schools, focusing on the integration of technology into the library media program; with advice on how to get started, and a selection of lesson plans.

Presents ideas designed to promote understanding of the Big6 approach to information and technology skills instruction; discussing specific strategies for building Big6 skills into new and existing instructional programs.

An exploration of reliability of digital information sources, discussing how to find reliable information, and how information found online can be misleading, misinformed, or dangerous in some instances.

Explains what the World Wide Web is and how it works, and explains how to evaluate information found on the Internet to determine whether it is accurate, and how to use that information correctly.

Offers strategies for implementing technology in information literacy instruction, discussing blog and wiki communities, using web-based video streaming, building a digital library, course management systems, and online assessment.

Presents twenty lessons and hand-on activities--including games, core activities, and assessment and review tools--for teaching information literacy, covering such topics as brainstorming, search strings, citations, publishing cycles, and bibliography, and provides ready-to-print activity materials on CD-ROM.

Contains thirty-five standards-based exercises designed to help college students learn the fundamentals of information literacy.

A collection of practical strategies for teaching information and communications technology skills in middle school, and includes audio CD.

Presents ideas elementary school educators to encourage information literacy skills with the Big6 approach that defines information literacy, and discusses how to use the Big6, suggestions for student problems, citation, evaluation, and other related topics.