So how can we evaluate a website site to check its creditability?
Students need to look at who produced the websites and determine if it is an authentic website. “For students, the new tool means developing critical-thinking skills to evaluate endless reams of data, while resisting the distraction of Web ads and the temptation to plagiarize content from the Web” said Colhoun in an article But I Found It On The Web (http://www.csmonitor.com/2000/0425/p16s1.html). To determine the creditability of a website many items need to reviewed, such as the authority, accuracy, objectivity, how recent it is and coverage. In today’s age of information evaluation skills need to be second nature when reading anything. "Training a kid to have a critical eye is very, very important," says Catherine Davis, a veteran teacher and managing editor for Yahooligans.com, an Internet directory for young adults” (http://www.csmonitor.com/2000/0425/p16s1.html).
Kathy Schrock Guide for Educators has many value resources to help teachers teach students the importance of critically evaluating a website.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/eval.html
Primary and secondary resources! Although we can check and double check sources. Nothing beats a good old fashioned um what's it called............? Oh a BOOK! Students are often lost upon entering high school when it comes to writing papers and citing sources because they are members of the cut and paste colony.
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ReplyDeleteI really appreciate this blog about appropriate evaluation of a website! I think that this is one of the biggest struggles for students, as they have grown-up with technology, literally at their fingertips, but many of them lack the skills necessary to appropriately utilize it!
I think it is of imperative importance that students learn, as a student, appropriate and acceptable use proceedures, both as a student and as an individual. Thanks for sharing a resource to assist with this monumental task!