All you want is the right information. Some people have it. Others don't. The internet has true and false information, and as a student it is our jobs to help figure out which information is true or false. Our class participated in A Google a Day and researched the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus website to help us understand web literacy.
A Google a Day, which you can access here, is an online tool that is run by Google which helps someone with web literacy. It gives you three questions, which you have to answer using the special search engine, which won't give you blatant answers. You have to enter the keywords and really read into the articles to find the piece of information that you are looking for. This is helpful for when you don't have a lot of information and you need to find more, because it teaches you to use keywords and to find trustworthy information. I thought it was fun because we got to work together to try and solve the answers, which was not easy.
The most important thing while on the internet is making sure that the information that you are seeing is real. Accuracy, Authenticity, and Reliability can help you with that. Accuracy checks to make sure the information is true, or seems true. Authenticity checks to see who wrote the information; is it a Joe Schmoe or a professor? Lastly, reliability checks to see if the author is from a trustful organization. The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, which at first seems to be legit from the perspective of a normal person, is not. The author works at Kelvinic University, which seems legit. When you look into it, he is just someone who is good with computers, and the Kelvinic University is even made up. This website is a prime example of showing you that not everything on the internet is true.
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