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.
4. Digital literacy =
understanding how
internet searches work
Digital literacy =
the ability to analyse
and evaluate digital
information
Digital Literacy =
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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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L
A
E
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
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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
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http://dimland.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/dimland-radio-5-31-
14-show-notes.html /