It is VERY important for students to understand how to EVALUATE websites. Web sites are pages of information that ANY PERSON in the world can put on a computer to share with other people through the Internet. The resources on this page will help explain what skills are required in today's Digital Age of Information Literacy!
Information Literacy: The Web is not an Encyclopedia - http://www.oit.umd.edu/units/web/literacy/
This site is the leader in explaining clearly Information Literacy, how to evalute material published on the Internet, and how to cite references found on the Internet!
American Association of School Librarians - http://www.ala.org/aasl/ip_nine.html
A listing of nine information literacy standards for students. AASL also has a page with examples of information literacy curricula in different states - http://www.ala.org/aasl/resources/
CyberSmart School Program and Macmillan McGraw-Hill - http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org
A free curriculum for grades K-8 that covers a range of Internet issues - ethics, privacy, safety, and research strategies.
Media Literacy Clearinghouse - http://www.med.sc.edu/medialit
Everything you would need to teach media and information literacy: state standards, links to lesson plans, articles on Web literacy and more.
The above three resources were recommended in Technology and Learning August 2002 - http://www.techlearning.com
The cover story is called "Net-Wise Teens: Safety, Ethics and Innovation." This is a *wonderful* journal, we highly recommend it for educators at all levels. The article was very eye-opening. It discussed the ease and comfort of children in using the Internet for both academic and social interaction. Teens are much more savy than most parents and students and these teens explain a lot of the good and bad to us adults.
Criteria for evaluation fo Internet Information Resources: by Alastair
Smith, VUW Department of Library and Information Studies, New Zealand -
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/index.htm
Evaluating Web Resources: by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm
Coming to you from the Wolfgram Memorial Library at Widenar University in Chester, Pa., complete with examples of types of Web sites, a Powerpoint presentation, a bibliography, and links to other Web site evaluation tools.
Thinking Critically about Print Sources - http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/infosrv/lue/evalu.html
Web Evaluation: Criteria - http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
Web Evaluation Tour - http://www.infosearcher.com/cybertours/tours/tour04/_tourlaunch1.htm
In the October 21 issue of Tech Notes, I related to you the inaccurate information a teacher found on the Internet. The site given above provides a tour that will provide you with a few evaluation tools to use when you are surfing the web.
"What's On The Web" - http://www.ozline.com/learning/webtypes.html
Web published article by instructional design consultant Tom March.
The evaluation criteria used for science education Web resources is available online at: http://www.lehigh.edu/~amb4/websci/evalweb.html
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
This site covers it all! It also has pdf. files for students at different grade levels.
Evaluation worksheet - http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/internet/workshet.htm
A cool tool from the education department in the Austrailian state of Victoria.
Teachers' CyberGuide - http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html
You can print this one to use immediately.
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