Navigating Digital Information #9

Multiple Choice

"The ubiquity of newness can make it difficult for us to read an entire article that was published yesterday."

What does ubiquity mean?

• Highly disturbed, unstable, or distraught.

• Appearing everywhere or of being very common.

• Remaining the same in all cases and at all times; unchanging in form or character.

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Before believing and sharing, we need to find out ​

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and what evidence there is for their claims.

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My point is that understanding information is not about finding ​

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; it's about finding ​

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when conducting a search.

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multiple sources

multiple reliable sources

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Fact checkers, who confirm facts and debunk myths for a living, spend ​

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on search results than everyone else does.

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Fact-Checkers scan ​

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to check out their options, get a sense of what ​

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are available and what information is on offer, and then, based on what they're looking for, make ​

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about which website to visit first. 

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sources

informed decisions

search results

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Humans create and manage search engines, so the results they produce, via complex algorithms, are...

• always right.

• completely random.

• sometimes wrong

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So, when you enter a ​

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into any search engine, it doesn't spit out a list of sources ranked by ​

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Instead, they sort links based on a variety of factors using an algorithm, a set of rules or operations a computer ​

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.

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keyword

follows to complete a task

trustworthiness.

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Google returns results based on...

• How relevant it thinks a page will be for what you searched.

• The quality of the site based on Google's own definition of quality.

• Both the relevancy and quality.

• Neither; it is based on the trusthworthiness of the source.

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A page might be ​

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to your search if it contains multiple instances of the keyword you searched.

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When you search something on Google, how do you decide which link to click on first? Do you ever check multiple links when deciding what result is best? Why or why not? (Answer with at least 3 complete sentences.)

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The steps of Click Restraint are:

• Don't click.

• Scan titles and URLs.

• Scan the snippets below each title.

• Open a few results in new tabs for lateral reading.

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Put the phrase you're searching for in quotation marks. That way, a search engine will only look for those words ​

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.

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if you want to limit your results to one website domain, add "site:" and then the domain name, as in ​

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.

Multiple Choice

Try searching site:.edu to search websites...

• created by random users.

• funded by big businesses.

• sponsored by educational institutions.

Multiple Choice

"To eliminate words or websites from your search, include a minus sign before the phrase."

What does eliminate mean?

• Difficult to find, catch, or achieve.

• Completely remove or get rid of.

• To cause discomfort or unease.