Search and selection of information about physics and chemistry by means of digital resources like Wikipedia carried out by secondary students

Abstract

This paper describes the information search and selection skills, as established by the digital competence, of a secondary education students group. It aims to answer what are the digital resources they use, their reasons for using them, and the use and reliability given to the information obtained from Wikipedia. In order to achieve these goals, the literature about digital competence, ICT and Wikipedia has been considered in order to design a questionnaire. According to the answers obtained and to the literature, the use of new technologies frequently doesn´t make a student competent in processing digital information. Moreover, the students don´t have a critical attitude about how they have to search and select information from Internet.