Google.com Literacy Project

If you want to learn more about literacy, share your ideas and research or get to a wider community of reflection on literacy then the new Google Literacy project might be the ticket. Thanks to Jeff for the heads up.

Comments

[chris]

What a good thing! I am, however, aware of feeling swamped sometimes by the amount of stuff that I want to check out - then I get drawn into one specific thread and forget where I was going....

A bit like life, really.

[Andrew Pass]

Ewan, When I first heard the term "Google Literacy" I thought what types of literacy skills does it take to use Google expediently? An individual must first have a question that he/she wants answered. One must then be able to quickly read the brief descriptions under search listing and determine what specific websites will provide the information that is being sought. This is difficult because it requires the formation of hypothesis based on little information. But the fact is that in our day and age when more information is created in two years than existed in all of human history just a few years ago, it's important to discriminate between useful information and extraneous information. Teaching informational literacy by teaching how to effectively search Google might be an interesting curriculum.

Andrew Pass
http://www.Pass-Ed.com/blogger.html

[mark]

google is compared to a ocean of information...

some times i forget if what was i searching for :)