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ACTIVITY ONE ACCESSING DIGITAL CONTENT Google Forms and Search Engines
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Knowing how, when, and where to access information on the Internet will grow to be an increasingly significant factor of digital media literacy. The availability of information resources and search technologies is expanding rapidly increasing the importance of effectively knowing how to access and reduce digital information into reliable forms of content extraction. This requires a new set of skills, strategies that are essential in accessing and successfully screening information.
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ACTIVITY ONE ACCESSING DIGITAL
CONTENT
Google Forms and Search Engines
Activity One Directions
To participate in this activity you will need to enter the Google Forms Workspace.
Once you enter the workspace you will see a Google search engine at the top left hand corner of the page.
Below the search engine is a Google docs form.
Use the search engine to search terms.Use Google Forms to Answer QuestionsDo not submit until all questions have been
prompted and answered
HOW MUCH IS INFORMATION
EXPANDING ON THE INTERNET DAILY WEEKLY
MONTHLY YEARLY
Essential Question
LET US EXPERIMENT WITH HOW ACCESSING INFORMATION AFFECTS US NOW. TO RUN OUR
EXPERIMENT TYPE THE TERM "EPUB" INTO YOUR GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE.
Search Engine Experiment
First Search Results
How many hits for the term "ePub" did you receive?
Enter Answer on Google Form
When I performed this search on June 23, of 2012 I received about 21,500,000 results in 0.21 seconds.
I was first introduced to the term ePub in the
year 2011 and very little information could be found.
HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT IN ONE YEAR'S TIME A VIRTUALLY
UNKNOWN TERM LIKE EPUB HAS EVOLVED TO THIS MOMENT TO
OVER 21 MILLION CONTRIBUTORS, AND GROWING EXPONENTIALLY?
ENTER ANSWER ON GOOGLE FORMS
Essential Question Two
Second Search Results
"How long it would take an individual to read and access 21 million artifacts at your immediate disposal?
Enter Your Answer in Google Forms
Second Refined Search
The second search include the words " ePub Generation"
How many hits did you receive?When I conducted this search on June 23, of
2012 it provided me with about 9,690,000 results in 0.21 seconds.
What is the difference today between what I received?
Enter Your Answer
Conclusion
Possibly we could determine the rate of information expansion by comparing our data over time.
What does it matter?
These overwhelming numbers of contributors in online search engines like Google creates a new kind of problem, a crises in information problem.
HOW CAN WE BEGIN TO SOLVE THE INFORMATION
CRISES PROBLEM?
ENTER YOUR ANSWER
Essential Question Three
Let’s Look at Our ProblemInformation is Fragmented
New Skills Are Required
Knowing how, when, and where to access information on the Internet will grow to be an increasingly significant factor of digital media literacy.
The availability of information resources and search technologies is expanding rapidly increasing the importance of effectively knowing how to access and reduce digital information into reliable forms of content extraction.
