My students generally start here:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html especially
with that flash presentation.  Most of these are excellent, especially the
Medical Library one:  http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html and
with its "top 10 list" at:
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/topten.html


On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:18 AM, David J. Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote:


> Hello Joan and others,

>

> On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Joan Medlen wrote:

>

> > Can you clarify me where this might be taught? I think the target

> > audience

> > is what I'm after.

> > As a health care professional, I *do* think we need to help with #1

> > and 2.

> > I need to think about the rest.

>

> I was thinking about the contexts of the adult literacy or adult

> basic education (including ESOL) classroom or tutorial, or online or

> blended learning. I was also thinking about education for out-of-

> school youth. I wasn't particularly thinking about higher ed or K-12,

> or business (except for workplace basic skills programs).

>

> I was just now looking at professional development for businesspeople

> called "skill pills", 2-minute videos delivered to web-accessible

> PDAs  on how topics such as how organize and run meetings and how to

> deal with stress, so I also think some of these internet search

> skills could be taught for what I call PLAs (Personal Learning

> Assistants) , that is web-accessible handhelds like Ipod touch/Iphone

> and Blackberry. It's possible that the costs for these handhelds will

> come down and that this will be a major way, in a few years, that

> North Americans access the web.

>

> This is an important issue for health care education, I know,

> especially questions 1 and 3. There is a study in progress now at the

> Dana Farber Cancer Research Institute in Boston with low-literate

> adults on how they use the web to find and use health information.

> When completed, it should provide some insights. There may be other

> studies, too, that can shed some light on how literate adults can or

> could use the web effectively to find and judge information.

>

> Joan, or others, are you aware of "helpful hints" for adults who want

> to find and judge health information on the web?

>

> David J. Rosen

> djrosen at comcast.net

>

> >

> >

>  > At 03:15 PM 9/2/2008, I wrote:

> >> Technology Colleagues,

> >>

> >> There have been many interesting responses to my post yesterday, but

> >> so far no one has yet responded to my questions:

> >>

> >> 1) Should we be teaching how to find and judge information?

> >> 2) ...how to navigate efficiently and effectively?

> >>         a) Do some of our students already do this better than we do?

> >>         b) Should we be learning navigation skills together with

> >> them?

> >> 3) Are there some helpful hints that we should be teaching for Web

> >> page navigation?

> >>         a) If so what are they?

> >> 4) Should we be teaching visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic

> >> intelligences, or at least honoring them?

> >>

> >> I hope some of you have some answers, and some experience with

> >> teaching how to find/judge information online and how to navigate

> >> well. If so, can you share some helpful hints?

> >>

> >> David J. Rosen

> >> djrosen at comcast.net

> >>

> >> On Sep 1, 2008, at 1:01 PM, David J. Rosen wrote:

> >>

> >>> Technology colleagues,

> >>>

> >>> This article from South Africa's The Times, Newspapers have a

> >>> future if they start thinking,  has got me thinking. The author,

> >>> Ray Hartley, the paper's editor, quotes John Seely Brown, the Chief

> >>> Scientist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Brown has

> >>> long be an innovative thinker. He says ""The typewriter prized one

> >>> particular kind of intelligence, but with the web, we suddenly have

> >>> a medium that honours multiple forms of intelligence - abstract,

> >>> textual, visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic."

> >>>

> >>> He adds: "People my age tend to think that kids who are

> >>> multiprocessing can't be concentrating. That may not be true.

> >>> Indeed, one of the things we noticed is that the attention span of

> >>> the teens at PARC - often between 30 seconds and five minutes -

> >>> parallels that of top managers, who operate in a world of fast

> >>> context-switching. So the short attention spans of today's kids may

> >>> turn out to be far from dysfunctional for future work worlds."

> >>>

> >>> Brown says: "The new literacy, beyond text and image, is one of

> >>> information navigation. The real literacy of tomorrow entails the

> >>> ability to be your own personal reference librarian - to know how

> >>> to navigate through confusing, complex information spaces and feel

> >>> comfortable doing so. 'Navigation' may well be the main form of

> >>> literacy for the 21st century."

> >>>

> >>> We know that "reading web pages" is different from reading hard

> >>> copy. Web pages often lots of images, increasingly audio and video

> >>> files, as well as text. They also have links to navigate to -- and

> >>> back from. Should we be teaching how to find and judge information,

> >>> how to navigate efficiently and effectively? (Do some of our

> >>> students already do this better than we do?) Should we be learning

> >>> this together with them? Are there some helpful hints that we

> >>> should be teaching for Web page navigation? If so what are they?

> >>>

> >>> Should we be teaching visual, musical, social and kinaesthetic

> >>> intelligences, or at least honoring them?

> >>>

> >>> You'll find the article at:

> >>> http://tinyurl.com/5jdmzh

> >>>

> >>> David J. Rosen

> >>> djrosen at comcast.net

> >>>

> >>>

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