Semester A Unit 5 Lesson 9
Introduction and Objective
We’ve looked at video resources to provide new information and have learned about other places you can search to find more on the topic you are studying. You search topics on the Internet and can find almost an unlimited amount of information. All of the different ways to find information, view information, and learn information can help in comprehension, as well as in deciding whether or not to believe an argument or opinion.
Today 's lesson objective is:
Students will be able to synthesize a variety of formats and media to develop an understanding of a topic.
Take a moment to think about the objective. You’ve seen this objective before. What learning skills have you used to
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Websites can have magazines, newspapers, articles, recordings, letters, videos, encyclopedias, textbooks, and so much more.
To find information from a website, the first thing you do is search the topic. Using the Einstein letter as an example, the following are some suggestions for finding exactly what you are looking for:
1. Put what you are looking for in quotation marks to search sites that include those exact words, next to each other, in the exact manner. For example: “theory of relativity.”
2. Use the word “and” in order to search two terms. For example: “Einstein and Roosevelt.”
3. There is a trick to eliminating finds on the web that you do not want. Using the word “not” will rule out searches. For example: “heart NOT love.”
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How can you be sure that what you are reading, viewing, or listening to electronically is trustworthy? The ending of the address is key! Take a look at the chart below.
Ending? Who? Trustworthy?
.com Companies or Commercial Organizations Some companies are creating educational content on their websites, but commercial sites also contain biased advertising and information.
.edu Educational or Research Institutions Educational that contain reliable information about research being conducted at the institution.
.gov
or
.mil Governmental or Military Organizations These are government and military sites. Are credible and often related toward education.
.org Not-for-Profit Organizations Given that these are
When we think of the first people in America, of course, we think of Christopher Columbus. Yet, the first people were the Cherokee Indians. They are the second largest and most powerful tribe of the “Five Civilized Tribes”, that live on lands many, many years before the white man set foot on their soil. Regrettably, the Cherokee’s were brutally removed from their homes, where they lived for 30,000 years. This expedition was the Trail of Tears; this paper will show the effects the Trail of Tears had on the Cherokee Indians.
The PBS documentary Divided States of America is a thorough compilation of information starting with Barack Obama’s rise to the Presidency, his subsequent eight years in office, and the events which led to Donald Trump’s election to the position of the forty-fifth President of the United States of America. Amid these important events there were many smaller ones, both positive and negative, which when articulated in the documentary, provided all the gritty details about how and why those major events occurred. Most of the events covered were events which I had very limited knowledge about before my exposure to the documentary. As my knowledge and understanding of the events which transpired during this period increased, a few events really
Denis Diderot, the author of the Encyclopedie, once stated, “There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.” By taking on the the massive project of the Encyclopédie, he reflected on the tons of facts during his time and bound them together so that others could reflect and experiment. Today we use an expansion of the Encyclopédie called Wikipedia. Wikipedia, the first response to most people’s curiosity, is a digital Encyclopedia that houses information on almost every topic known to man. Part of it’s importance comes from that fact that anyone with internet access can better themselves in anything that interests them, for free. The other half of it’s
When I first started exploring, I spent quite some time researching different keywords to bring about the answer that I was looking for. If I pulled up an article that was raunchy and did not fit what I was interested in, I moved on. There is not a cookie cutter way to do this.
Posttraumatic stress disorder is becoming an ever-growing topic off concern within the childhood and young adolescent community, this topic is brought up in multiple settings including school, child protective services, and the foster care system. PTSD in our youth can happen through numerous ways and does not always occur from physical or sexual abuse, it can occur through natural disasters or even community dysfunction however the effects from the trauma suffered can last a lifetime. “The most basic definition of Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric sequel to a stressful event or situation of an exceptionally threatening or catastrophic in nature.” (Kassam-Adams, & Winston, 2004, p.409). In the event that a client suffers
Online search / internet searching has become an essential for students and scholars. What typically took place in libraries, by phone calls or visits to experts in the field is being changed because of the Internet. Experts can sometimes be contacted by email and information, whether it is addresses, phone numbers, or detailed specifics on a certain subject, can be accessed on the World Wide Web. Search Engines have become the most important tools in locating this information, so it is important to know how to use them effectively. Search skills can be developed through practice in using the search engines and by reading the help pages provided by the
There are many criteria that we can use to determine if the website is credible or not. The first and the most important
When it comes to the issue of determining if a resource contains valuable information, there is often a list of criteria that the reader has in order to decide if the information is worthwhile. Such prominent examples include how recently was the document posted, what are the credentials of the author, and the logic that is used during the presentation of the content. This basic premise also persists when it comes to making examinations of whether or not information on websites should be as legitimate and trustworthy. However, one website that goes above and beyond such criteria is that of the Mayo Clinic and in particular their page on the occurrence of ADHD in children. Ultimately the Mayo Clinic's page on ADHD uses the criteria of
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We learned about how reading a text and then searching the Internet for websites, videos, and images can help in understanding the topic better. It can also help in making a decision about whether you are more inclined to believe an argument when the original text you read was a persuasive text. With more information, you can make better choices, but remember that not everything on the Internet is trustworthy and true!
During the time spent researching articles I used a multiple of different search terms. For example, I
University students examine the credibility of information found on web sites, confidence making their determinations and the perceptions of authors’ vested interests (Idling). Two studies were conducted: In study one computer science and education studies students were the participants. They concluded that the credible web sites had a pattern of being focused on “relevance, education and name recognition”(Para 1). The site that lacked credibility were, those that did not have support information, considered biased and had specific sponsors or was commercial.
Even if I used four different search engines the results that I found were very similar
While in search engines user give words key and that search engine compiled such keywords from web page into database which user could query. These search engines continuously update their information to provides the accurate and actual result of users search. Example of search engines includes alta vista,lucos and excite.
When searching by keywords, you can choose a relevant type of search: all words, any word, exact phrase – depending on what information you want to find. Persia searches keywords in resume texts and also in comments to candidate profiles, which you or your colleagues left.