Information Fluency & 21st Century Skills

In this module I have learned a better understanding of search engines.  I now know how to do advanced searches, to find the information I am looking for much quicker.  When searching for something specific such as white pizza without pepperoni, I would put quotation marks around white,  and a minus sign before pepperoni. This will search for only white pizza without pepperoni. These search techniques definitely save time searching through so much material on the Web. 

The deep web, is a part of the internet that is unseen through everyday search engines. The more I have looked intot the deep web it is frigtning. This part of the web is below the surface of the Worl Wide Web, and can be accessed by using metasearch engines such as  Dogpile DeeperWeb National Security Archive, and PubMed .

New Terminology

Information Fluency: is a model that builds on the skills of traditional digital literacy, integrating technology with domain specific knowledge, critical thinking, presentation, participation and communication skills.

Invisible Web: refers to the part of the world wide Web that's not indexed by the search engines.

Metasearch Engine: A meta search engine is a type of search engine that gives results based on a combination of results from other search engine databases. It specializes in concatenating databases from a variety of search engines and linking search results to relevant sources.

DeepWeb: the portion of the Internet that is hidden from conventional searchengines, as by encryption the aggregate of unindexed websites.

21st Century Skills: are a set of abilities that students need to develop in order to succeed in the information age. A good site to learn more about thes skills is 21st Century Learning

Digital Citizenship: is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students, children, and technology users should know to use technology appropriately.