Developing Web literacy in collaborative inquiry activities

Kuiper, Els; Volman, Monique; Terwel, J.

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2008.11.010

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“…Information literacy is about accessing and analyzing information, and Web literacy is a subset of information literacy which involves applying those skills online and being able to recognize obscured intent and pay attention to non-textual features (Burke, 2002;Kuiper, Volman, & Terwel, 2009;Sorapure, Inglesby & Yatchisin, 1998). In other words, Web users must sort through both textual and visual cues to determine the credibility of information online.…”

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Information Literacy on the Web: How College Students Use Visual and Textual Cues to Assess Credibility on Health Websites

Pariera¹

2012

Comminfolit

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One of the most important literacy skills in today's information society is the ability to determine the credibility of online information. Users sort through a staggering number of websites while discerning which will provide satisfactory information. In this study, 70 college students assessed the credibility of health websites with a low and high design quality in either low or high credibility groups. The study's purpose was to understand if students relied more on textual or visual cues in determining credibility and to understand if this affected their recall of those cues later. The results indicate that when viewing a high credibility website, high design quality will bolster the credibility perception, but design quality will not compensate for a low credibility website. The recall test also indicated that credibility does impact the participants' recall of visual and textual cues. Implications are discussed in light of the Elaboration Likelihood Model. [ARTICLE]Pariera: Information Literacy on the Web: How College Students Use Visual

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Information Literacy on the Web: How College Students Use Visual and Textual Cues to Assess Credibility on Health Websites

Pariera¹

2012

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“…Taking these into account, we could expand the above definition of web literacy and consider it as an umbrella term, encompassing a range of interrelated abilities to read, write and collaborate online. iii There have been large scale surveys to assess adolescents' abilities to read and understand digital texts (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-OECD, 2009) and there have been reported efforts to diffuse web literacy in primary and secondary education settings (Brown, 2011;Kuiper et al, 2009). On the other hand, teachers are considered to be the gateway to literate societies, and their role is crucial in providing students with diverse opportunities to learn to read, understand, and interpret web information resources in a critical manner.…”

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Web literacy practices of teacher education students and in-service teachers in Greece : a descriptive study

Bougatzeli

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Bekos

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Summary.In the expanding context of new literacies, the abilities to know how to locate and evaluate web information resources so as to construct knowledge are acknowledged as extremely important worldwide. Current literacy curricula should encourage the development of such abilities, and their successful implementation requires that teachers themselves are properly prepared. The present study reports the web searching and evaluating practices for educational purposes employed by both pre-service and in-service teachers. Data were collected via an anonymous online questionnaire. The descriptive study exhibits teachers' web reading practices with the purpose of identifying aspects that require attention when designing and implementing relevant educational initiatives. According to the findings of this research, both pre-service and in-service teachers almost exclusively use popular search engines to locate web information resources, and they choose such resources without examining their wider context. To evaluate web information resources, they consider mainly morphological and design elements, rather than content features such as their origin and credibility. The findings raise the potential of applying critical literacy principles on the Web so that teachers can approach it critiquely .i when using its resources in educational settings.

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“…Word processing) they concluded that students were not developing knowledge of more advanced computer uses, such as communication and information sharing. The same has been noticed in schoolchildren (Kuiper et al, 2009) who were found to have good technical web skills, but not the information literacy to be able to use them effectively.…”

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Surfing or still drowning? Student nurses’ Internet skills

Bond

2010

Nurse Education Today

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SummaryA study into student nurses' ability to use the Internet was published in Nurse Education Today in 2004. This paper repeats the research with a cohort of students starting their pre-registration programme in a UK university in 2007.In 2004 students were reported as having poor internet skills, and as not being frequent users of the Internet. In this study students were found to have significantly better ability to carry out basic tasks and significantly higher levels of internet use. Their ability to apply these skills to more complex information literacy tasks however had not increased, with more than half of all students saying they found far too much irrelevant information when searching for specific information on the internet. The earlier study found that skills and age were not related, which appears to still be the case.The need for these skills is increasing as education, lifelong learning, and patient information are all increasingly drawing on the developing Internet. Nurse education however is not integrating the skill and knowledge base essential to support this into preregistration programmes, and the evidence suggests that this will not happen without active management.

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Developing Web literacy in collaborative inquiry activities

Cited by 88 publications

References 16 publications

Information Literacy on the Web: How College Students Use Visual and Textual Cues to Assess Credibility on Health Websites

Information Literacy on the Web: How College Students Use Visual and Textual Cues to Assess Credibility on Health Websites

Web literacy practices of teacher education students and in-service teachers in Greece : a descriptive study

Surfing or still drowning? Student nurses’ Internet skills

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