Alan
November, International leader in education technology
http://www.anovember.com
Read some of Alan November’s latest articles
and find links to assist you in teaching students to
be critical of the
information they see in the internet.
CML (Center for Media Literacy) MediaLit Kit
http://www.medialit.org/bp_mlk.html
The Center for Media Literacy provides many useful resources for educators
to use with their students. From this site, you can download posters and handouts
(with simplified questions for students) focusing on media literacy.
Cybersmart
http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/lesson_plans/
This website is designed for teachers looking for lessons on how to teach
students how to use the internet effectively and safely. There are lessons
for all grade levels and teachers can print out the lesson plans and student
activity sheets.
The Educator's Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Information_Literacy
This site contains lesson plans for teaching information literacy.
Evaluating information on the Internet
http://library.albany.edu/usered/webeval/index.html
This site is an online tutorial to determine the credibility of internet
sources.
Four
Nets for Better Searching
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm
This website teaches students how to use a 4 step process to find information
in Google. If students go through these 4 steps, it will enable them to narrow
their search and find the information they are looking for when researching for
classes. It will help to eliminate sites that are not relevant to their topic.
Information Literacy Primer
http://www.edutopia.org/php/article.php?id=Art_833
Kathy Schrock’s article is a guide to internet information literacy.
Intel Education: Evaluating Internet Resources
http://www.intel.com/education/newtotech/internet.htm
This site provides educators with downloadable forms for evaluating internet
resources that could be used with students.
Noodle Tools Information Literacy: Search Strategies
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Link to various search engines and websites that locate the best information
on the internet to suit your needs.
QUICK: The Quality Information Checklist
http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
This interactive site provides students with eight ways of checking information
on web site. This is a great site for educators with young students.
Understanding Information Literacy
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/UnderLit/index.html
Read articles from Barbara Humes that provide a definition of information
literacy and its implications and teaching and learning.
Yahooligans! Teachers' Guide
http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/evaluatingwebsites.html
Yahooligans provides a quick teachers guide to help educators with the
evaluation of Web sites.
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SITES FOR STUDENT EVALUATION:
All About Explorers
http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/
This is a fictional site that was put together by a group of teachers to
show students that a well put together site does not mean that the information
on that site is factual.
Dihydrogen Monoxide
http://www.dhmo.org/
This site is good for middle school students to evaluate. This site teaches
students to look further at what a site is saying and determine what is fact
vs. fiction.
Improbable Research
http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
This is a great site to use for showing students that even though a page
has a bibliography, it doesn’t mean that the information is true. This
is a great site to show fictional scientific research in action.
Martin Luther King Jr. – A True Historical Examination
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
This is an example of a site about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that is
not credible; it’s a revisionist site.
Mechanical Marvels Of The Nineteenth Century
http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
This site contains creative use of pictures that will convince any middle
school student that these robots really exist. Have students find out more
about the authors of this site in order to find the truth.
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
This fictional site is great for teaching students about reading websites
carefully and exploring the truth behind what is written on a website.
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