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Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to use the information in a discerning way to successfully complete academic tasks. Enabling students to select and use information appropriately empowers them to function at a higher level of digital information fluency, acting as discerning consumers of, and effective contributors to, web-based information. Offers a situated, problem-solving approach to deepen students’ analytical and research skillsExplores a practical, real-life dilemma that is typically experienced by undergraduates in the course of their academic work, especially those transitioning from secondary to third-level educationFocuses on the authentic educational needs of undergraduates as expressed by educators, but also students themselvesAddresses a specific central dilemma which is identified at the outset, but also uses the opportunity to reveal to students the broader contextual issues which frame the problem they are exploring

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Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Library & information sciences

• Full title: Digital Detectives
• Subtitle: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World
• Author: Crystal Fulton, Claire McGuinness
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254
• EAN: 9780081001240
• ISBN: 008100124X
• ID: 02843550
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
• Weight: 428 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 229 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. February 2016

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