Exploring the Internet Using Critical Thinking Skills: A Self-Paced Workbook for Learning to Effectively Use the Internet and Evaluate Online Information - Softcover

Jones, Debra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555703194 ISBN 13: 9781555703196

Publisher: Neal Schuman Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Draws on critical thinking skills from the reader to learn how to use the Internet and evaluate its resources

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This workbook by an Internet librarian seeks to provide instruction and practice in developing skills to locate a variety of information resources on the Internet, apply critical evaluation to select relevant, good-quality data, and identify bias and personal opinion in full-text online material. The eight lessons encompass a basic orientation to the World Wide Web and Netscape, basic search techniques, WWW search engines, Internet sources for news, government data, and educational resources, E-mail resources including listservs and Usenet newsgroups, computer-use ethics, copyright issues, and guidance in citing digitalized information in footnotes and term-paper bibliographies. Basic definitions provided in the text are duplicated in the glossary. Online practice exercises accompany each lesson. New instructors may benefit from the book as a planning guide. Since most of the content is readily available on the Internet, however, more savvy teachers may prefer to virtually point their students to specific URLs and spare their students the cost of this workbook.ABetty J. Glass, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Neal Schuman Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555703194
• ISBN 13: 9781555703196
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 94