Achieving My Learning Goals
As I continue as a student throughout my Information Fluency and Inquiry Course, I feel myself progressing through my learning goals that I have previously identified. Prior to learning about digital fluency, I struggled with finding relevant resources and often went with the first resource that seemed closest in relation to my research. Miller states, “the main difficulty was not getting hold of good information but knowing what information to trust.” (Miller, 2012). Far too often I found myself using resources that were somewhat questionable. However, I have learned that there are several ways to check the accuracy of the sources that I want to use. Miller states, “Assessing online information for accuracy or trustworthiness depends on both classic techniques of fact-checking and new, sometimes quite specific skills, that apply these techniques to the internet” (Miller, 2012). I plan to use these techniques learned so far in this course to help me check the accuracy of the sites I choose to use within my research.
As far as my learning goals are concerned, I believe that I need to focus more on evaluating information effectively and locating information efficiently. This will help me to meet my goals by actually finding useful tools to develop and design my own resources. According to the Common Core State Standards Rubric for Information Fluency, I rate my competency level as skilled on both of those learning goals. I still have a lot of room for improvement. I know that I have a proper growth mindset toward information fluency because I know that I have not had a lot of experience pertaining to those areas before. However, I know that if I continue to practice and educate myself, I will become more skilled in those areas and I will begin to more fully understand and master both of those skills. I intend to challenge myself to grow in terms of information fluency and utilize my skills not only in this course, but throughout my career as a lifelong learner.
Sources
Information Fluency. (n.d.). Retrieved May 30, 2017, from
internet. Journal of Information Literacy, 6(2). 35.
http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/article/view/PRA-V6-I2-2012-3
I'm guilty of the same search behaviors prior to taking this course. The resources we have read have been very informative. I've learned so much about my own searching behaviors. I also plan to continue to use the skills we've acquired in this course to build my informational and digital fluency.
ReplyDeleteJessica, I am also guilty of often using one of the first resources I encounter during research. According to Miller and Bartlett, I would be considered a person who "bounces" (2012, p.37). I definitely need to embrace the three key factors of digital fluency: net-savviness, critical evaluative techniques, and diversity (Miller & Bartlett, 2012, p. 39). If we can improve our digital fluency, our students will benefit from the information we teach and model; we will encourage lifelong learners.
ReplyDeleteGuilty as charged, I also need to focus on evaluating information more effectively. I tend to use the first few sources listed thinking they are the ones most closely related to my search. Its easy for us to believe that what we see on the internet as truth because we don't take the time to do more complete research. In addition, its also easy to feel overwhelmed with the amount of information we receive as well. I find it difficult to locate tools to use in my classroom due to the fact there are so many out there. Wouldn't it be great if we could get reviews of recent tool like the movie reviews along with tutorials on how to use :)
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