Developing Digital Literacy Skills with WebQuests and Web Inquiry Projects

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Author(s): Susan E. Gibson (University of Alberta, Canada)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 16
Source title: Web Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-982-3.ch083

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Web Technologies / Web Technologies & Engineering

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This article identifies digital literacy as an important aspect of new media literacy at the K-12 level. Digital literacy includes developing the skills of information location and application as well understanding how to use available evidence to assist in problem solving and decision making about important questions and issues that have no clear answers. Two web-based examples of instructional strategies – WebQuests and Web Inquiry Projects—are suggested as ways to develop these and other important 21st century learning skills.

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