Evaluating Information on the Web
From Langwitches comes this post, Don’t Believe Everyting You See Online.
Why is our first impulse to believe something that we see, read or hear? Especially if it is in print, online or comes in an “officially” looking packaging?
How do we teach ourselves and our students, that another impulse has to follow the first one immediately: Evaluate…critical thinking… learn to listen for and to your own “gut feeling”… cross referencing…
Information literacy is an important part of being literate. Being able to know how to read and write alone, just doesn’t “cut it anymore”.
There are many useful references and links in this post.
Another useful resource I’ve just come across is Identify Bias. This is an Austalian site which has a lot of relevant info in regards to research skills.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Yes this Identifying Bias page is from a State Library of Victoria site called ergo.
http://slv.vic.gov.au/ergo/
There’s guides to writing essays too.
June 6th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Thanks for the reminder about the ergo site. I had forgotten about it and it is nice and simple, easy to understand, especially for the younger students.
Langwitches post was one that of the reminded me that I wanted to try to create some resources that teachers can use in the classrooms with our students.
I wrote a post listing resources ( http://bit.ly/5u9Mz ) and put a number of the fake websites into a sharetabs page so that they are kept together. There are some that aren’t contained in Langwitches excellent resource. Feel free to have look – http://www.sharetabs.com/830
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