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This project for a doctoral thesis focused on web literacy and discusses how difficult it is to teach the relevant skills in isolation: | |||
<blockquote>"If we accept that literacy skills and practices are seen as social, cultural, political and economic, then Web literacy skills should be viewed in the same way."</blockquote> | |||
<p align="right">Brown, A. (2011). Teaching web literacy in the age of new literacies (Doctoral dissertation, University of Victoria).</p> | |||
<blockquote>"According to Kuiper, Volman and Terwel (2009), Web literacy is a concept that is comprised of “a combination of various skills regarding the critical use of the Web for one‟s own purposes” (p. 669). Web literacy skills can be divided into three subcategories that including searching on the Web, reading on the Web, and evaluating on the Web (Kuiper, Volman, & Terwell, 2009)."</blockquote> | |||
<p align="right">Brown, A. (2011). Teaching web literacy in the age of new literacies (Doctoral dissertation, University of Victoria).</p> | |||
<blockquote>"A 2009 article published in Career World discussed skills that students should not leave high school without and ranked “Web literacy” as number one (Reece, 2009). Reece (2009) defined Web literacy as “the ability to access, analyze, and evaluate online information” (p. 21); but Web literacy is a complex set of skills unique to its environment and requires a more nuanced definition. Kuiper, Volman, and Terwel (2009) propose that Web literacy is “the ability to handle the Web critically” (p. 669). They include three skills within their definition of Web literacy: Web searching skills, which includes using appropriate key words, locating relevant information, and knowing different ways to locate information; Web reading skills, which is the ability to interpret the results of search engines (such as Google), understanding and using hypertext, and knowing which information to choose and which to disregard; and Web evaluating skills such as assessing the reliability and validity of sources and relating text images to various sites (Kuiper, Volman, & Terwel, 2009, pp. 669-670)."</blockquote> | |||
<p align="right">Brown, A. (2011). Teaching web literacy in the age of new literacies (Doctoral dissertation, University of Victoria).</p> | |||
==2010== | ==2010== | ||