Exploring the Internet Using Critical Thinking Skills

Download or read book Exploring the Internet Using Critical Thinking Skills written by Debra Jones and published by Neal-Schuman Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This workbook by an Internet librarian seeks to provide instruction and practice in developing skills to locate a variety of information resources on the Internet, apply critical evaluation to select relevant, good-quality data, and identify bias and personal opinion in full-text online material. The eight lessons encompass a basic orientation to the World Wide Web and Netscape, basic search techniques, WWW search engines, Internet sources for news, government data, and educational resources, E-mail resources including listservs and Usenet newsgroups, computer-use ethics, copyright issues, and guidance in citing digitalized information in footnotes and term-paper bibliographies. Basic definitions provided in the text are duplicated in the glossary. Online practice exercises accompany each lesson."--Library Journal.