Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Teaching Information Literacy

The great thing about the Internet is that anybody can publish their thoughts and ideas. The problem with the Internet is that anybody can publish their thoughts and ideas.

How do you know that what you are finding is accurate and without bias?

We need to teach our students to watch to see of they are getting their information from authoritative sources. It is not good enough to say I found it on goggle. (although Goggle does design their search method to give legitimate, referenced sites higher ratings.).

I like what I have heard from journalist about guidelines for non authoritative sources. Do other sources reference the source? Do other sources confirm the information?

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