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Books > Children's & Educational > Technology & applied sciences > Computing & information technology > General
This exceptional keyboarding program will appeal to every student.
All elements, including the courseware, textbook, and student
software manuals are fully integrated to provide students with the
total learning experience. The courseware provides students with
immediate feedback as it scores timings and most documents.
Cross-Curriculum activities enable students to use their
keyboarding skills in other courses. The student manuals serve as
software reference guides.
As the amount - and quality - of information available on the
Internet continues to expand dramatically, students not only need
to learn Internet searching skills, but to develop literacy and
critical thinking skills as well. This workbook uses active larning
to help students discover how to find information on the Net, and
assess the accuracy and relevance of all information they retrieve.
Incorporating easy-to-follow explanations, graphic illustrations,
eight hands-on practice sessions, and dozens of screen captures,
the book teaches students - at their own pace - how to: develop
efficient search strategies; analyze evidence, assumptions, and
logical arguments in Internet sources; and use appropriate citation
styles. Covered are: an overview of online information; learning to
be a critical thinker; evaluating Internet information sources;
searching on the Web; identifying bias, manipulative use of
information, personal opinion, and currency of Internet
information; and a discussion of Netiquette and citation styles for
Listserv messages, World Wide Web, Gopher sites, FTP sites, and
Usenet groups.
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