Teacher Knowledge:

The teacher knows and understands:

• a variety of strategies for acquiring information from electronic resources (2.1k);
• how to acquire electronic information in a variety of formats (2.2k); and
• how to evaluate acquired electronic information.

Application:

The teacher is able to:

• use strategies to locate and acquire desired information from collaborative software and on networks, including the Internet and intranets (2.1s);
• apply appropriate electronic search strategies in the acquisition of information, including keyword and Boolean search strategies (2.2.s);
• identify, create, and use files in various appropriate formats such as text, bitmapped/vector graphics, image, video, and audio files (2.3s);
• access, manage, and manipulate information from secondary storage and remote devices (2.4s);
• use on-line help and other documentation (2.5s);
• determine and employ methods to evaluate electronic information for accuracy and validity (2.6s);
• resolve information conflicts and validate information by accessing, researching, and comparing data from multiple sources (2.7s); and
• identify the source, location, media type, relevancy, and content validity of available information (2.8s).