The course online information and retrieval has been a very informative. The challenge of creating a blog alone has been a great learning experience for me. It’s definitely a skill that I would like to develop further. It was a great opportunity to just get started in the blogosphere.
The searching itself has been eye opening. I already knew that there was endless information available but this course has been very useful in breaking down how to navigate the Internet, find reliable sources, use search techniques, and analyze information retrieved.
My favorite search technique was the building block and I also found the citation pearl technique to be very useful as well. Sometimes you are unfamiliar with your topic and you may not know where to begin. These techniques encourage you to either build on your search based on the information you retrieve which can help you either narrow or expand the search. I found the building block search technique gave the researcher more control over the search. I liked the citation pearl because you may be unfamiliar with certain terms on the subject you are trying to research and the citation pearl technique helps you look out for a keyword or words that could really make a difference in the relevancy of the information that you retrieve.
What I was happy to learn about my topic of information literacy and fake news is that the subject of information literacy is being taught in schools and universities, and educators do understand the importance of teaching it. The information I reviewed on the subject over the semester makes me understand even more how gravely important information literacy is to our society now that we have access to so much information. We have to be able to know how to decipher it. My hope is that over time, with information literacy being taught to the younger generation that society will come to have a better understanding of how to process and weed through the vast amounts of information available to us and form objective opinions.
No comments:
Post a Comment