EDS: Finding and evaluating information
This module looks at navigating online content to search for and find useful content. It looks at using searches, hyperlinks, menus and other navigation elements to locate required information. This will include how to retain and save useful links to content for future use or for reference. Users will need to know how to use techniques to carry out and refine searches, taking into account currency, relevance and reliability, and be aware that results are ranked by search engines.
Aim
To develop your understanding, skills and confidence to teach competencies in Finding and evaluating Information from the Using devices and handling information skills area of the National Standards for Essential Digital Skills (2019).
Objective
At the end of the module you will be able to:
- Explain the key knowledge components required to teach finding and evaluating information
- Apply the technical skills identified in the module
- Facilitate effective learning of this area of the standards at the relevant level (Entry or Level 1)
Essental Digital Skills
This module covers the EDS component - 1.2 : Finding and evaluating information
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ITS is a possessive pronoun
IT'S is a contraction of IT IS
They are not interchangeable!
a bit tricky with the terms but overall informative
A good understanding of terms after this course
Some good food for thought in this module.
It would have been handy to have a closer look at Boolean searches: Perhaps this resource for instance...
https://www.ukop.co.uk/help_boolean_search.aspx
Refining search terms is very important skill in any internet based studies.
This should go without saying but read the quiz questions carefully before answering... I got caught out on one and it is a 100% pass mark for this section.
Interesting and informative
Effort has gone into presentation and research, however the content is vapid. The quiz a the end is awful, having to score 100% based on vague questions of semantics is insulting. I read all the content properly and still had to do the terrible quiz 5 times because of the poorly worded inaccurate questions. If you are doing these please make the questions clear factual answers.
Thankyou
I found this unit nd this valuable especially in terms of ensuring my learners are taught to full competence and understanding with regard to evaluating their online searches.
Some answers are not as defined - URL - the R is generally understood to be 'resource'
bit long and drawn out
Useful in places.
learned new technical terms
An excellent teaching resource with lots of engaging activities and information.
Great and useful, except at least three of the quiz questions and answers are incorrect, meaning that the quiz needs to be retaken over and over again. The URL question varies the answer between Resource, which is what I have always understood the R stood for and Reference. I got it wrong three times, trying to guess which one it would call correct this time.
Looking at the feedback, others have reported this, clearly with no amendment, as it still happened today.
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URL stands for Universal RESOURCE Locator nothing else.
Useful parts. All exercises very 'wordy' for some learners
Good content, practical teaching ideas and excellent further resource links. I learnt a lot. Just one thing, @ Oct 2020 one quiz answer needs check. The one on URL Universal RESOURCE locator marks as wrong meaning you have to repeat.
time consuming
I liked the videos here, engaging, short and clear. I found the language of the explanations a little convoluted at times, and spotted a number of typos and errors. E.g. in the final activities section, the quote "Agnus Dei, qui tollis piccata mundi". Piccata is a thin escalope of veal. Peccata means sins. Unless it was a deliberate error... I would prefer the phrase "hone in" to read "home in", avoiding this Americanism. A question about PDFs stated "Pages can be printed as these so they may be downloaded". I think printed and downloaded should be the other way around. Google Chrome isn't a search engine, it is a browser and operating system. Other than these minor things it is a comprehensive and useful tutorial with lots of thoughtful exercises and examples.
Super!
Interesting
well explained and practical
The question about URL - what does the R stand for - doesn't seem to have a correct answer.
very useful. I will apply the advice.
Excellent ideas of learning activities for students.
Interesting module.
I am having trouble reading the questions as they are pale grey.
There are few acronyms I now know what they stand for. It was interesting.
I enjoyed working through this module and discovered some tips and knowledge of which I was unaware. It has been very useful.
A very interesting module.
A useful module. I'll start using boolean technique when searching.
Well structured module
Overall a good resource, one of the questions has a fault, URL - no answer gives the correct outcome. so finishing the quiz was tricky, I advise keep retaking the quiz until that question is omitted it took me a few attempts.
The correct answer for URL is Resource but it is marked as incorrect!!!! Please correct this as it forced me to retake the quiz 3 times.
good
useful
It was ok and perhaps my students can used some of it.
Very informative
useful for knowing how to refine search techniques!
I have struggled with refining searches myself and my learners indicated they needed more help with this it has made me reflect in what I might do in the future for my own research and how I will embed it with my learners.
What does R in URL stand for marks wrong answer.
Thought I knew most of this but I have learned new terminology a techniques.
Useful stuff on Boolean searches
Despite thinking I knew about this I learnt a few more tip and valuable ways to refine a search.
Really useful, easy to use and learnt some useful terms, resources and ideas to use.
Some really strange wording on some of the quiz questions, this could trip up people unfamiliar with the concepts.
The quiz within this section was difficult to complete with the question relating to 'What does the R in URL stand for. After many attempts of entering the correct option of resource, the quiz ticked the option as being correct yet marked the answer as wrong. This proved very tedious when trying to complete the course.
Useful information some of which I had never really known even though I use them frequently
Thought I knew all of this unit before I started, never assume
a good training resource
Good background information
good content and thought provoking - need more on validity section - how to cross check and spot fake news ??
Awell and well put together module to learn about search engines and browers.
Really interesting to here about the cnt F button which lets you find words in text.
Interesting points
Some tricky questions
Interesting module and useful resources. Not sure some of the questions are correct though, especially the URL one, don't think any of the answers came out as the correct answer, I would check that one.
https://www.hackcollege.com/blog/2011/11/23/infographic-get-more-out-of-google.html this link take you to https://www.educationnews.org/tag/google/
Good information and links to good information.
Good tips, especially the Boolean searches.
Information provided was new, new ways to refine searches.
