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🎯Objective: To be information literate and recognise that searching for information on the Internet is a skill and not all information you read is true.
✅Key Results:
Complete the TBC Learner Profile
Go through 'Fake or Alternative Facts' Slideshow
Discuss as a group different search strategies
Complete and Turn in the 'Search Challenges' Slide to demonstrate your search skills
First, let's get some information about you. This will be shared with all your core class teachers to help them get to know you better.
Fake or Alternative facts?
Fake or Alternative facts?
Is everything you read on the Internet True? Fake? or Alternative Facts? Go through this presentation.
The Internet and Search
The Internet and Search
Anyone can type a search term into Google search and immediately have thousands, if not millions of results. Most people never go beyond the first page of search results, so how do you know those are the best sources for what you're researching? What tips or tricks can you use to find exactly what you're looking for without wasting time?
Group Exercise
Group Exercise
At your table group, read through the "Better searches, Better results" infographic on the right.
How many of the advanced internet searches did you know about before today?
How many do you actually use? What new technique may you use?
Google Tips_Tricks.pdfPut your learning to the test!
Put your learning to the test!
Now demonstrate that you can Search and can spot the difference between real and fake. In Google Classroom, open the Assignment called 'So You Think You Can Search' and follow the instructions on this document.
(if your teacher hasn't posted it in Google Classroom, click here to make a copy)
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