Be a 21st Century Investigator

Digital investigator is interactive internet site for all types of learners from middle through high school age to educate, explore, and evaluate their internet skills through MicroModule presentations and activities. The website shows you how to narrow your search as well as checking out the author of the page and how to ethnically use the information.

I will definitely incorporate the site into my teaching next year because it has great overview of everyday optical students encounter in technology. The site even helped me to learn a little more about using search engines and narrowing my word choice.

Here are a few of the tips:

Rule of thumb

Lowercase broadens search while capital letters narrow it

Queries

Extracting keywords will narrow the search

Subject Indexes are useful when you have a broad idea

Asking the search engine look for a “nyms”

Invisible Web

Add keywords like database, archive, or repository to your query to find these websites

A step by step on how to evaluate author of a webpage:

Investigating an author

Students need to know that anyone can place material on the internet and using as a platform to mislead people. It is important to make sure the information is accurate, not bias, and creditable.

Ethical Use

Detecting plagiarism is coping and pasting work from internet without giving the author credit.

Copyright and fair usage is away for educators to uses internet material correctly for educational purpose in the classroom.

Citations are different for all projects but a great way to give credit to the author.

This site turns staff and students into digital investigators when looking of information of the worldwide web.