Module 7
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Lexis Nexis
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S STRATEGY
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Building block: Initial search was for information literacy which yielded 997 results
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REFINEMENT SS
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I did two types of refinements. The first was geographical and narrowed it to the United States. That yielded 257 results. I wasn’t successful searching within those geographically refined results for “media literacy and “digital literacy.” I then tried the search with in results on my main search results and was able to yield 5 results using the key words “digital literacy” AND “media literacy”
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BEST HIT SS
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Two articles seemed relevant: “What is digital literacy?” and “Common Core gives nod to digital skills.”
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1 CONTENT THNG YOU LEARNED
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I learned from the “what is digital literacy”article that I may have better results using the term digital literacy versus information literacy. The term is more specific to Internet and social media and cites the ALA definition of, “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.”
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1 SEARCHING THING YOU LEARNED
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This database allows you to search within your results by using categories but the lists to help you narrow your search were long. You also have the option of searching within results in a box on the top right but I would say you need to have some skill with using Boolean operators. I did not find that appealing.
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REFLECT ON HOW THE SEARCH WENT
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I did not prefer this database. I think it is probably a good source if you want to search newspapers but I didn’t necessarily find it the easiest of the databases that we’ve used to find information.
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Initial search
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993 results yielded from using the term information literacy and "fake news".
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 Results could be narrowed geographically.
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