A Google A Day (http://www.agoogleaday.com/#game=started) is an online game made by google, that teaches people how to search efficiently on google. The game asks a hard question, then makes players fine the answer my effectively searching on google. Throughout the game, the answers to the questions get harder to find, but google provides helpful searching tips. Everyone in the class had fun learning new random facts, and competing against the other teams. Eventually, every group got stumped and we had to put all of our skills together to find the correct answer. I learned many essential searching skills to find better information.
When talking about information, accuracy, authenticity, and reliability are crucial. Accuracy is the state of being precise, which means that the information that someone gathers had to be true. Authenticity is the quality of being genuine and real, so the information's source has to be valid. Reliability means that a source is good quality and is able to be trusted. After discussing these three important terms, we visited the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus website (http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/). This website definitely could not be used as a source in school. Although the website lives up to it's title and is about what it says it is, the information is not accurate, authentic, nor reliable. There is no such thing as a Tree Octopus, so the false information is definitely not accurate. There is no honest research behind this animal, so it is not authentic. The website is deceiving, because it comes off as a true source, which makes it very unreliable.
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| "Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus" http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ |
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