March 19, 2005 - Dan MacIsaac



March 19, 2005

A Sample of Online Resources for Information Fluency

by Pat Viele, Physics and Astronomy Librarian Cornell University

This list is not, and was not intended to be, comprehensive. For your convenience, I searched the Web for materials that you might (or might not) find helpful.

As with any resource, it is the responsibility of the individual user to determine the accuracy and appropriateness of material found on the Internet.

Brem, Sarah K., Janet Russell, Lisa Weems. “Science on the Web: Student Evaluations of Scientific Arguments.” 



Fact, Fiction, or Opinion? Evaluating Online Information



I Read It on the Internet! -- Teaching About Web Literacy



The Educator’s Reference Desk (ERIC)



Murray, Jane. “More From Japan: Applying the Big6 Skills and the Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to Internet Research.”



Library of Congress Science Tracer Bullets



Bellinger, Gene, Durval lCastro, Anthony Mills. “Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom.”



Founded by Drew Smith, and edited by Mark Dibble. Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy



Critical thinking curriculum model (Los Alamos National Laboratory)



TILT



Information Literacy on the WWW



California State University Assignment Clearinghouse



21st Century Project Information Fluency Project Portal



Web Sources for Science Educators (this includes a sample Web page evaluation form)



Example of an Internet Quiz



Copyright Basics



Nobel Prize Trivia Quiz



Scientific American has a daily trivia item and an archive of trivia questions



MIT



Quizzes and Trivia (About Inventors)



Go to the Gateway to Educational Materials and search on trivia:



Search on science trivia in the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse



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