Information Fluency Games
The games in this section provide a score and feedback based on the users performance. The information is not stored by the system. These games help students practice important information fluency skills in a low stress, yet assessment oriented environment. If you want to capture a students score, consider using screenshot technology. (These games require the use of FLASH.)
These games can be used with 21CIF's WSI Web Site Evaluator!
The Investigator Training in WSI covers
Author,
Publisher,
Date,
Bias,
Links To,
Links From,
Accuracy,
Evidence.
"WSI: Web Site Investigator
Some of the games on this page are linked to the WSI modules.
An interactive MicroModule companion. This tutorial provides an opportunity to apply research and detective techniques that help you find the author of a website.
An interactive MicroModule companion. Investigative techniques for determining the Publisher of a website.
An interactive MicroModule companion. How to recognize indicators of Bias. Read passages from actual websites then check your understanding of bias using 5 essential criteria.
An interactive MicroModule companion. Determine the freshness of information by fining out how recently a web page was published or updated.
An interactive game Micromodule companion: Understand how to discover pages that link to the webpage under investigation.
Five separate evaluation challenges that compare your investigative findings to those of others in your class. Can you detect which websites are hoaxes and which are not?
Live webpage evaluation games that challenge your skills to locate and evaluate information on the Internet.
This tutorial provides an opportunity to apply copyright and fair use knowledge in a learning game setting.
Plagiarism Detection for teachers and students
These online games are focused on teaching students and teachers how to detect plagiarism using investigate search methods. The games increase in compexity as you go. Scores are not stored by the system. Use a screenshot if you want to document a student's performance.
Our original plagiarism challenge: can you tell which students are guilty of plagiarism? Can your students make a distinction between paraphrasing and plagiarism?
Part two of this series of tutorial games for improving one's understanding of plagiarism vs paraphrasing.
Part three of series of tutorial games for improving one's understanding of plagiarism and how to avoid it. This game asked you to investigate science topics. Can you demonstrate the differencs between plagiarism and paraphrasing?
This is the home page for our Full Circle Resource Kits. Each Kit is designed to provide online and face to face teachers with a comprehensive set of online articles about searching, evaluating, and ethically using digital content. Includes, games, assessment ideas, and curriculum building resources.
Topics Include: Getting Started with the Search Process, Instructional Guidelines, Database Selection, Deep Web Searching, Question to Query, Optimal Queries, Effective Operators Homing in on Relevant Information, Browsing, Directories, Links, Tags, Web 2.0 Search Applications, Evaluation, Author, Publisher, Bias, Links, Date, Evidence, Accuracy, Ethical Use, and Citation.
Research, curriculum materials, online games, for teaching information fluency skills.
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Online interactive learning games and teacher resources for teaching information fluency. Drop these course games into your online classes, library- media kiosks, or school webpages. (A free service of the 21st Century Information Fluency Project.)
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