Sunday, September 7, 2014

Learning about media literacy

All of our class activities are used to teach us how to use media literacy responsibility because more and more classes are using technology and we have to learn how to properly use online resources. Google a day is a website made by Google, the website asks a different puzzle everyday, you have to then solve the puzzle using Google. I think the Google a day activity was a little frustrating because it would constantly freeze and not work properly. But, I think it was fun trying something different. http://www.agoogleaday.com/#game=started

Accuracy is the state of being right or precise, Authenticity is the quality of being authentic and reliability is the consistency of a measure. This site did not have any of these qualities. What doesn't make this site reliable is the author is not a specialist on the topic, if you look up the author it comes to a page with a lot of made up stories about the author. Second, this site is not authentic because there are no other reliable websites about the animal. Finally, the website is not accurate because the information is not right or precise. For example, the website says the tree octopus is endangered because of the rising Sasquatch population and this is not true because there is no evidence of the Sasquatch or the tree octopus. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

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