Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Day 10: Evaluating Web Sites AND Standards
Sometimes it can be really hard to figure out if what you are reading online is from a legitimate source. I remember finding a web site that had a lot of medical advice and I was reading it and some of the information posted on the site was clearly wrong. I have also found information on places lie wikipedia that appears to be written by people who do not have the credibility to be posting such things. Fortunately, I think the period of believing everything you see and read online is coming to an end. I think that it is really important that we as teachers prepare our students to search or conduct research for information that was created by credible people. However, we must first be able to effectively determine what makes a person credible and what does not.
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It has come to an age we cannot believe everything we read. Unfortunately there are people that post things on the internet that are not experts and make you believe they are. It is up to us to be educated and be selective about what information we take as true.
Now, if we can just convince our kids that not everything on the Net is true. I think we need to have student lessons focused specifically on how to search the site and choose credible info.
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