Web+Literacy-+New+Ways+To+Think+&+Search

Learn new skills to find, evaluate, & use information effectively & ethically. Help students search, read for information, guide through the research process, and how to help develop essential critical evaluation and thinking skills. Learn 5 alternatives to Goggle and why they are better choices for research. Discover relevant Internet safety and responsible use issues, current research and statistics. Learn how to become savvy web searchers, web literate and to critically evaluate sites. Learn advanced searching techniques to find what you want, know the effective use of 6 key command words to find the information they are searching for.

Upon completion of the session/workshop participants will be able to:
 * Search the Internet Effectively
 * Evaluate Internet information and web pages skillfully
 * Determine fake information on the Web
 * Read Web Addresses
 * Determine Page Authorship
 * Check Viral Information and the Content
 * Use the 2 letter country code to compare and contract information from other countries
 * Use 5 key commands to search the Web
 * Define why you're looking for it, and what you're // not // looking for.
 * Learn to think critically, even suspiciously
 * How search engines work with KEY words
 * Learn why the most powerful keyword combination is the phrase.
 * Learn why you MUST use quotation marks when you search for a document
 * Why Boolean" searching is a powerful technique that can narrow your search to a reasonable number of results

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