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