Game Tutorials

Interactive tutorial challenges help students (upper elementary through adult) improve abilities to search, evaluate and use online information responsibly

Search Skills

15 Challenges Check your skills to find, evaluate and use digital information
Keyword Challenges select and find powerful search terms
Timed and untimed Search Challenges use search engines to find increasingly hard-to-find information
Guided Challenges use embedded hints to locate information that even AI can't find

Investigative Skills

WSI (Website investigator) research and file reports whether suspicious information may be believed or not
Author, Publisher, Bias, Freshness, and Fact Checking separate modules for each investigative task
Bad Apple Challenges drag and drop criteria into the appropriate basket (GOOD or BAD) as you investigate sites

Avoid Plagiarism

Plagiarism Dropbox 12 case studies: decide what has been plagiarised and how to fix it

Tips and Lessons

Fast-reads on a broad range of topics that improve digital searching, thinking critically about information and ethical use

MicroModules Over 30 topics from Accuracy to the Vanishing Web that take just minutes to read
Tips Thirty vital tips about searching, evaluation and ethical use
Glossary Definitions pertaining to the world of Information Fluency

Digital Information Fluency Model

A deep dive into skills needed for digital fluency and their connection to learning standards (Illinois and ISTE)

Tools and Wizards

Time-saving templates for Advanced Searching and digital Citation

Google Advanced Search

Fill in the boxes for your search and see what your Google query looks like

Citation Tools

APA Citation Wizard, Chicago Manual of Style Wizard, CSE Citation Wizard, Harvard Citation Wizard, MLA Citation Wizard

Digital Information Fluency

Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use information retrieved online effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves Internet and database search skills that start with understanding how digital information is different from print information, knowing how to use specialized tools for finding digital information and strengthening the dispositions needed in the digital information environment. Read about Model and Standards...