This document discusses the importance of digital literacy and critical evaluation of online information. It recommends the REAL strategy for students to evaluate websites: Read the URL, Examine the site's content and history, Ask about the author/publisher, and Look at the links. Following this strategy helps students analyze a site's reliability and assess the credibility of information on the internet. The document stresses that students need skills to critically analyze digital information online and verify the trustworthiness of sources.

1. Developing info-savvy students-
Critical literacy in the web world

2. How busy is the superhighway?
http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time/

3. 25
years
young
Work found at
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/
abs@.nsf/Lookup/8146.0Chapte
r32012-13 / CC BY 2.5 AU

4. Digital literacy =
understanding how
internet searches work
Digital literacy =
the ability to analyse
and evaluate digital
information
Digital Literacy =

5. Who can you trust?

6. Breaking
news?

7. Beware of self publishing

8. “Make me
beautiful.”
The internet is the most
powerful, convenient
and potentially
manipulative medium
ever invented and is
continually growing.

9. C.R.A.P.:
1.Currency
2.Reliability
3.Authority
4.Purpose

10. creative commons licensed (BY) flickr photo by christinapsych4:
http://flickr.com/photos/christinapsych4/2312302221
Alan
November’s
Web Literacy
Test

11. Try Alan November’s REAL strategy:
ead the URL;
xamine the site's content & history;
sk about the author/publisher;
ook at the links.
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12. ead the URL;
R

13. http://www.webliteracy.edu.au/~oddone/tutorials/page1.html
How the information is transmitted
World
Wide
Web
Directory
or folder
The file which
has the page
contents
Domain
Hypertext
markup
language;
the file
type.
Domain
extension
URL = Universal Resource Locator

14. E xamine the site's
content & history;

19. sk about the
author/publisher;A

20. Who published
the page?

22. Are you on a personal page?
Look for:
• A personal name
• A tilde ~
• A %
• The words ‘user’
‘student’ or
‘members’

23. URL = Universal Resource Locator
http://www.webliteracy.edu.au/~oddone/tutorials/page1.html
How the information is transmitted
World
Wide
Web
Directory
or folder
The file which
has the page
contents
Domain
Hypertext
markup
language;
the file
type.
Domain
extension

24. http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/lifetimes.html

29. L ook at the links.

30. Students usually only search using one search engine.
They also believe that the top hits are the most important.
How are these hits arranged?

36. Students research from
social media too…

39. Provenance –
is this the
original piece
of content?

42. Source: Who is the real Julia?

43. Date: When was the content created?

45. Images used with permission under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamper/5123660766
http://blaugh.com/2007/06/11/link-popularity-vs-pagerank-vs-yoda/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/3389581452/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brenda-starr/3509344402
http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainmath/5157857685
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/3985641874
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078
http://flickr.com/photos/mkhmarketing/8540717756
Images used under creative commons licensed (BY-SA)
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14-show-notes.html /