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Informtion Competence
for

Black Studies


Introduction
Welcome to Black Studies

Find Information
Information literate students can accesses information effectively & efficiently

Evaluate Information
Information literate students can evaluate information critically & competently

Apply Information
Information literate students can use information accurately & creatively

Future Considerations
What comes next? How you can become involved

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Research: Then & Now

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The Internet has drastically changed the way research is conducted.  Where once students would rely on professionally produced bibliographies and print indexes for articles, now they can type in keywords and find a wide variety of information both evaluated and unfiltered. While this makes research less time consuming than before, it has created a whole new set of criteria for students to evaluate. Lets take a look at how that change in information retrieval has effected both the quality and content of student research:

 

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