Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas In An Online World

Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to use the information in a discerning way to successfully complete academic tasks. Enabling students to select and use information appropriately empowers them to function at a higher level of digital information fluency, acting as discerning consumers of, and effective contributors to, web-based information. Offers a situated, problem-solving approach to deepen students analytical and research skillsExplores a practical, real-life dilemma that is typically experienced by undergraduates in the course of their academic work, especially those transitioning from secondary to third-level educationFocuses on the authentic educational needs of undergraduates as expressed by educators, but also students themselvesAddresses a specific central dilemma which is identified at the outset, but also uses the opportunity to reveal to students the broader contextual issues which frame the problem they are exploring "

• | Author: Crystal Fulton, Claire McGuinness
• | Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• | Publication Date: Feb 26, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 254 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 008100124X
• | ISBN-13: 9780081001240