How resources are obtained today when students do research is so different than before the Web. In the past, students began learning how to understand dewey decimal system and card catalogs to identify and locate information on a given topic. Today, students type a word or group of words into the Google search box and away they go. As a more senior learner, I using the manuel system initally I do not recall there being a great deal of concern regarding the reliablity of resources. If you got the information from the encyclopedia or a text written on the subject reliablity was not questioned. Now individuals have access to a larger variety of information, all of which may not be accurate or reliable.
As teachers introducing students to the glories of the World Wide Web, it becomes a part of our instructional duties to show students how to weed through the plethora of information provided during a topic search and evaluate not only the information presented, but the source of the information. Like teaching students the building blocks of writing a grammatically sound paper with nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. placed in the correct order I feel that as we teach students new and differing topics we must now include the building blocks of how to research safely and how to utilize reliable sources to gather information from.
I appreciated the website evaluation execise in TPTE 486 because it provided a clear well organized checklist of the types of things to consider when visiting a site. It helped me form a better idea of all the components such a lesson would need to include in my own classroom.
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