Learning Module 3

IF or information fluency is the ability to gather, evaluate, and use information in ethical and legal ways. This includes three skills:  information literacy, technology literacy and critical thinking. All of which are very important to the job market these days. I learned there is a way to use technology appropriately, this is called having Digital Citizenship, which has 9 elements. Digital Access: full electronic participation in society, Digital Commerce: electronic buying and selling of goods, Digital Communication: electronic exchange of information, Digital Literacy: process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology, Digital Etiquette: electronic standards of conduct or procedure, Digital Law: electronic responsibility for actions and deeds, Digital Rights & Responsibilities: those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world, Digital Health & Wellness: physical and psychological well-being in a digital technology world and  Digital Security (self-protection): electronic precautions to guarantee safety. Todays work environment requires more than just knowledge of the craft, there is much much more being looked at now a days. Some requirements are: flexibility, adaptability, initiative, self determination, social & cultural skills, productivity, accountability, leadership and of course responsibility. Basically you need to know how to be diverse in order to be successful. I also learned how search engines work, for the most part. I found out by just using the general search engine such as Google or Yahoo your not getting the results your looking for because you are only skimming the surface. There is what is called the deep web, which you cannot find by taking only a minute to hop on Google. There are millions of webpages, databases we don't know about because we never find them in a regular old search. Even though they are hidden, these websites probably have the better of the information. (8

Learning Module 2

In this learning module I learned the 5 basic things connecting to the internet depends on: Protocols (a set of rules which is used by computers to communicate with each other across a network), Hardware, Software, Connection and Internet Service Providers (alo known as ISP a company that offers its customers access to the Internet). I learned the proper difference between HTTP, HTML and URL; when I used to think they all just did the same things. For example, a URL is just a shortcut to the IP address. A HTTP is a protocol that transfers hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers. And HTML is a language, a set of tags and rules for using them in developing hypertext documents. Now im sounding smart. I very much enjoyed playing the games about internet safety, they were fun and I actually learned alot! The cool little quizes with fun animations made it alot more interseting to do as compaed to just reading.