Define IT
Finds, evaluates and uses information effectively.
What is an information literate individual?
For info the day of an event.
What are TV, radio and web sources?
Basic facts and overviews.
What is reference material?
A specialized search engine.
What is a database?
False information that is broadcast or published as news.
What is fake news?
Interviews, emails, tweets, speeches, surveys, field research, creative works.
What are primary information sources?
For more in-depth information weeks later.
What are popular sources or magazines?
Scholarly research and analysis.
What are academic articles?
A subject term, label or descriptor.
What is controlled vocabulary or keywords?
Information from a person or organization knowledgeable in a topic.
What is a credible source?
People Magazine, Sports Illustrated are examples of...
What are popular information sources?
For information the day after an event.
What are newspapers, TV, radio and web sources?
Interviews, editorials or opinion.
What are newspapers and magazines?
Contains resources for many subject areas.
What are general or multidisciplinary databases?
Information is free from error and verifiable.
What is accurate?
Documentaries, biographies, textbooks, journal articles.
What are secondary information sources?
For information years later.
What are scholarly journals, books, studies?
Background and in-depth info.
What are books?
Used when searching a specific phrase.
What are quotations?
A source with multiple points of view supported by reliable sources.
What is objective?
Contains content written by researchers, scholars and experts.
What is an academic journal?
Determines when information appears.
What is the information timeline?
The different points at which we seek info.
What is the research cycle?
AND, OR and NOT.
What are Boolean operators?
Authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and audience.
What are the five basic criteria for evaluating information?