Modern Digital Skills - Chapter 2: PDF
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The University of Jordan
2024
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This document details the skills needed for digital information and data literacy, focusing on practical guidance using Google search and other tools. It explores important topics such as the differences between data and information, as well as strategies for evaluating the credibility of information retrieved via online search engines. The content is relevant for understanding information access and critical evaluation in the digital age.
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10/10/2024 MODERN DIGITAL SKILLS CHAPTER 2: INFORMATION AND DATA LITERACY © All Rights Reserved. The University Of Jordan...
10/10/2024 MODERN DIGITAL SKILLS CHAPTER 2: INFORMATION AND DATA LITERACY © All Rights Reserved. The University Of Jordan 1 1. Literacy in the digital age 2. Data literacy Vs Information CONTENTS Literacy 3. Where to find data and information 4. Google search (skills and hacks) Search by time Google search characters Image search tools Video search tools 5. Google advanced search 6. Google images 7. Google Scholar 8. Bing Microsoft search engine 9. Wikipedia 10. Credibility of Information on internet Critical information literacy: © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 2 Pause before you share 1 10/10/2024 Literacy in the digital age Literacy The importance of Literacy : It is the ability to: It enables you to read, write and understand various make decisions forms of communication. participate in the communities, access, understand, evaluate, analyze Keep track of opportunities for growth. and use information © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan Types of Literacy Critical Computer Copyright Information Data Disaster literacy literacy literacy Literacy literacy literacy Financial Health Media Visual Web literacy literacy literacy literacy literacy 3 Data literacy Vs Information Literacy Data: Raw facts that are collected and used for analysis and decision-making Recall that: Information : Data that has been processed ( meaningful data) Data literacy Information literacy the ability to: the ability to: find, evaluate, interpret, use and apply read, write and communicate data in context relevant information to situations that require decision making, problem solving, or acquisition of knowledge. analyze data through statistical tools and use the data in decision making processes and reports. identify a need for certain information for a given problem or task understand privacy and the ethical use of manage and ethically share that information data for appropriate purposes © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 4 2 10/10/2024 Where to find data and information? Google: Google search Search tools Advanced search Search Engines Google image Google scholar Microsoft Bing Encyclopedia Wikipedia 5 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan Google search The most famous search engine is Google, you visit it from the following URL : www.google.com © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 6 3 10/10/2024 Google search Hacks: search by time You can specify the time of your search results, to do this: 1. Write the keyword that you are searching for in the search textbox 2. Click on (tools) button 3. Select the time you want from: (Anytime) list box 1 2 -95-+ 7 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan Google search Hacks: Search characters There are many categories of Google search operators: Subtraction ( – ) (Negative Symbol): Used to Exclude some results from the search Example: To search for (sport), but not (swimming): sport –swimming © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan Exact search ( “ ”) Used to give the Exact result. Example: To display results of (university of Jordan) and all other universities in Jordan: university of Jordan To display results of (university of Jordan) only: 8 “university of Jordan” 4 10/10/2024 Google search Hacks: Search characters Range of Numbers (..) Used to determine range of numbers: (from.. to..) Example: To show results of smartphones with prices from (100 – 250 JD). smartphones jd 100.. jd 250 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 9 Google search Hacks: Image search tools To search for images of (roses) in Google, do the following: 1. Write the keyword (rose) in the search textbox 2. Click on (Images) 3. click on (tools) options 4. Select the size, color and time. In the following search, Google will display yellow roses 10 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 5 10/10/2024 Google search Hacks: Video search tools Example: To search for videos about (car) drawing tutorials, do the following: 1. Write the keyword (car) in the search text box, 2. Select (videos) options © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 11 Google Advanced search Advanced Search is used to search for pages in terms in the whole page, page title, or web address, or links to the page you're looking for. Use Google advanced search from the following URL: https://www.google.com/advanced_search Example: Suppose you want to search for the following: Open Google Advanced search and fill Pages about (Animals) the options as follows: these animal should be rabbits, dogs or cats all these words: Animals these animals shouldn’t be fish Any of these words: dogs, the results should have ppt format (power point file) cats, rabbits You don't want google to display non appropriate None of these words: fish results File format: ppt © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 12 6 10/10/2024 Google Advanced search 13 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan Google images If you have a picture of a person or place and don't know who or what it is, use (Google Images) to search for it. Example : To search for the following Image, follow these steps: Open (Google Image) from https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en Click on the Camera icon Choose (upload an image) and click on (choose file) Select the image from your device Google will display the possible related results to the selected image, which is in this example: the father of Algebra: Alkhawarzmi 14 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 7 10/10/2024 Google images (2) (3) (1) (4) © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 15 Google Scholar GOOGLE SCHOLAR helps in your research because it provides a professional way to search for scientific research papers, books, and scientists. Example: To look for research papers about the effect of COVID pandemic on education: 1. Open Google scholar from: https://scholar.google.com/ 2. Write the keyword: (the effect of corona pandemic on education) on the search button 16 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 8 10/10/2024 Google Scholar By using Google Scholar: 1. You can download the PDF version of the research 2. You can specify the research publication time or relevance 3. You can also see the citation and versions 2 1 3 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 17 Bing Microsoft search engine Microsoft Bing is a search engine (similar to Google search) It is used to search for pages, maps, news, images and videos. https://www.bing.com/ 18 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 9 10/10/2024 Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written by volunteers through open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system. © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 19 Credibility of Information on Internet Internet users can access many resources for information. Some users get their information from resources like social media platforms (such as Facebook, X (Twitter), TikTok, and others). Knowledge is created by processing and interpreting information from raw data. If the data is inaccurate or false, the resulting information will be incorrect. Relying on incorrect information can cause serious problems because they will result in False knowledge. 20 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 10 10/10/2024 Critical information literacy: Pause before you share! There are three categories of Information disorder: 1. Misinformation 2. Disinformation 3. Mal information 21 © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan Misinformation: False but spread without intent Critical information literacy: Pause before you share! Misinformation : sharing inaccurate and misleading information in an unintentional way, like false rumors © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 22 11 10/10/2024 Disinformation: False and spread with intent Critical information literacy: Pause before you share! Disinformation : Deliberate sharing false or inaccurate information to discredit a person or organization. © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 23 Mal information: Correct and spread with intent to cause mislead Critical information literacy: Pause before you share! Mal information : information that is accurate and based on reality, but it is used with the intent to cause harm or mislead a person, organization or country. © All Rights Reserved The University Of Jordan 24 12