Search and value different digital sources, week 15-21

You will receive assignments where you are supposed to search and value different sources from Internet and other social media. In groups you are supposed to interact with each other in a video about your experiences.

Schedule: 

Week 15 - Introduction, go through theme + work with terminology + start with individual assignment

 

Week 16 - National tests social science 

 

Week 17 - Work with individual assignment 

 

Week 18 - Work with individual assignment finish assignment (Friday) and hand in at Unikum

 

Week 19 - National test + holiday

 

Week 20 - Work with group assignment 

 

Week 21 - Work and create the movie Finish group assignment on Friday and hand in at Unikum

 

 

Groups: 

Gör förslag på egna grupper och lämna in senast v 17.

 

Useful Terminology 

Below there is a list of terms that may be useful when communicating about digital reading. 

Web page 

A document on the World Wide Web. The content of web pages is normally accessed by using a browser. It is often hyperlinked to other documents on the Web. 

Website 

A combination of several related web pages. 

Icon (Computer icon) 

An image on a screen representing a file or programme that opens when clicked on. 

Header 

What you find at the top of the web page when you first get there. Here you often find the title of the organisation, company, blog etc., as well as the main navigation bar. 

Navigation bar 

Usually a horizontal list of links at the top of the web page. There is often a drop-down menu from the navigation bar. 

Sidebar 

Usually a vertical list of links to the left or the right of the website. 

Main content column 

Commonly located in the middle of a web page and containing the most important infor-mation. A web page can also have a left/right column that is often used for scrolling func-tions and banner ads. 

Footer 

Text that is separated from the main content column and appears at the bottom of a website. 

Link (Hyperlink) 

Images or underlined words and phrases that, when you click on them, take you to another web page. 

Browser 

A computer software application used to gather and show information on the WWW, for example Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera. 

Search engine 

A software system used to search for information on the Internet, for example Bing, Ask.com, Google. 

Search engine results page (SERP) 

A list of links to web pages, normally ranked from the most to the least visited, that you get when you type in a keyword query on a search engine. It typically includes a short descrip-tion of each web page. 21 Skolverket 2014 

Keyword query 

When you type in a word or a combination of words on a search engine in order to get a search result. 

To narrow or expand a search 

Using more or fewer words, phrases and sentences when performing a keyword query, often with the help of quotation marks and plus signs. 

Internal search engine 

A search engine used when searching for information on a specific website. 

Weblog or blog 

A website with informal information, usually about one specific subject. It often has one single author or a small group of authors. 

URL 

An abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator. It is the address of documents and other re-sources on the Internet. It can also be referred to as web address and is recognized by its ending which shows which type of information is to be found, for example .com which indi-cates information with a commercial interest or .org where it is more likely that you can find information from a non-commercial organisation. Other common addresses give you geo-graphical information, for example .se, .uk, etc. 

Multimodal texts 

A text that includes several different reading modes, such as “traditional” text, scales, tables and multimedia. 

App (Application) 

A type of software that allows you to perform specific tasks. When you open an application, it runs inside the operating system until you close it. Commonly the word app is used for application programmes easy to download and install on mobile devices. 

Läroplansmål

Centralt innehåll

• Strategier för att uppfatta detaljer och sammanhang i talat språk och texter, till exempel att anpassa lyssnande och läsning efter framställningens form, innehåll och syfte.
• Olika sätt att söka, välja och värdera texter och talat språk på engelska från Internet och andra medier.

Kriterier

• För att underlätta sin förståelse av innehållet i det talade språket och texterna kan eleven välja och använda sig av någon strategi för lyssnande och läsning.
• Eleven kan välja texter och talat språk från olika medier samt med viss relevans använda det valda materialet i sin egen produktion och interaktion.
• I muntlig interaktion i olika sammanhang kan eleven uttrycka sig begripligt och enkelt samt i någon mån anpassat till syfte, mottagare och situation.
• För att underlätta sin förståelse av innehållet i det talade språket och texterna kan eleven i viss utsträckning välja och använda sig av strategier för lyssnande och läsning.
• Eleven kan välja texter och talat språk från olika medier samt på ett relevant sätt använda det valda materialet i sin egen produktion och interaktion.
• I muntlig interaktion i olika sammanhang kan eleven uttrycka sig tydligt och med visst flyt samt med viss anpassning till syfte, mottagare och situation.
• Eleven kan välja texter och talat språk från olika medier samt på ett relevant och effektivt sätt använda det valda materialet i sin egen produktion och interaktion.
• I muntlig interaktion i olika sammanhang kan eleven uttrycka sig tydligt och med flyt samt med viss anpassning till syfte, mottagare och situation.

Uppgifter

Group assignment - different digital sources

You are supposed to create a manuscript in One Note about using Internet and other social medias. Everybody has to be involved to write and act in the movie by speaking English. Below you will see what to include in your manuscript (no special order): * Was it easyto find information about your famous person?l Why/why not, explain and discuss the reason to your opinions. * Ask each other about "the narrow search". Was there a difference and in that case how? * Discuss different strategies you used in order to understand * Discuss and motivate how you make sure you receive correct information from the Internet that you can trust?

Search and value different digital sources

In this individual writing exercise you will make a mind-map about a famous person (Popplet). Then you are supposed to hand in your answers to the questions at Unikum (Pages). The first picture is the Mind-map exercise. Finally, the following pictures are the questions you will answer and reflect upon.