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Digital Detectives
Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World

The book aims to address the issues surrounding digital research from the point of view of the students themselves, addressing real-life critical stumbling blocks that can prevent them from engaging fully and productively with learning situations as they move into the world of higher education

Crystal Fulton (Author), Claire McGuinness (Author)

9780081001240

Paperback / softback, published 25 February 2016

254 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.33 kg

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.

Chapter 1. The Digital Landscape, Scholarship, and You

Chapter 2. Your Learning in a Digital World

Chapter 3. Aladdin’s Cave

Chapter 4. Wiki or Won’t I?

Chapter 5. Judgement Day

Chapter 6. Finders Keepers

Chapter 7. In Too Deep

Chapter 8. It’s Only Words…

Chapter 9. All Play and No Work

Chapter 10. Truth or Dare

Chapter 11. A Hidden Agenda

Chapter 12. Fact or Fiction? Negotiating New Learning Spaces

Subject Areas: Information retrieval [UNH], IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries [GLF], Library, archive & information management [GLC], Library & information sciences [GL]

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