Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The video, Digital Literacy in the Google Generation ,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XqRR5WJ85k focuses on why we need to be critical of digital literacy when using the Google search engine on the internet. Students often depend on Google to research their reports. They need to ensure that they use credible sources when using Google. For example when the librarian from Nait did a lecture on database research for our Communications class, she showed us a website about Martin Luther King (www.martinlutherking.org). According to Google, this website is a “valuable resource for teachers and students”. However when you research the website more closely, the author is a neo Nazi. Obviously, this website is biased towards Martin Luther King.

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