| Please see the following links on what you should know about
validity and reliability of Internet information: The Web-Teaching Zack To Think;
The Web - Dark
Shadows; Determine
the Reliability of Internet Information, The Media Awareness
Network and How Do I Know Stuff on the Internet is
True? These links are lessons for your students
on evaluating Internet Information: QUICK
(Quality Information Checklist), Thinking
about the Five W's of Web Site Evaluation, and Internet Detectives
from the Madison (WI) Metropolitan School District.
For hints on searching the Internet, click here. Also, KidsClick (see below) has produced a
wonderful series of directions and examples for searching for information called Worlds of Word Searching.
For teaching your students how to cite electronic resources, click here.
Also, please remember that "Copying and pasting are the enemy of
understanding." The quote is from Dr. Jaimie McKenzie
and I heartily agree. Read his article Grazing
the Net about this issue. Students learn more if they summarize and make abstracts of
the information they get from the following resources instead of printing entire web pages
for notes.
- Little
Things That Make a Big Difference - a site
that will help a good web page become a great web page.
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