Unit 4: Digital Literacy

What is digital literacy?

• being able to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create online content using different types of technology and the internet itself

• a collection of items such as documents,

  online books, videos, news articles, photos, etc., put together in an online

  form

A digital library is a collection of items such as ______________ etc., put together in an online form. (select all that apply)

• documents

• online books

• videos

• news articles

• photos

to be in favor of a certain idea, place, person, or group of people over another is called ________.

What is the name of what a website ends with (.com, .edu, .gov, .org)?

• Browser

• Search engines

• Domain extension

• Link

What is an online library catalog?

• a collection of items such as documents, online books, videos, news articles, photos, etc., put together in an online form

• an electronic bibliographic database that

  finds documents, books, videos, news articles, etc. in a specific library

• programs that look for and identify items in

  a database based on keywords or characters entered in a search bar

What is the term given when editing a search to remove unwanted or unneeded elements?

• refining

• relevant

• researching

• search engines

What does relevant mean?

• research-based

• less bias

• current

• closely related material

Discovering facts through investigation is called:

• refining

• relevant

• researching

• valid

What are programs that look for and identify items in

a database based on keywords or characters entered in a search bar called?

• search engines

• domain extension

• digital library

• online library catalog

What does valid mean?

• to be in favor of a certain idea, place, person, or group of people over another

• based upon truth or reason

• discovering facts through investigation

• closely related material