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Web 2.0 Evaluation Kit
Resource kit with materials about evaluaiton of web 2.0 content.
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Evaluating Digital Information
Part Five of the series Five Things Today's Digital Generation Cannot do
(and what you can do to help) discusses how searchers have to invent their own evaluation standards because schools are not teaching them. -
Workshop Tutorials
The section on Investigative Searching is loaded with new ideas and activities to teach careful evaluation. Consider ways to use this resource in your class.
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ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
important element of evaluation
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Overview
After reading or viewing a text, students are introduced
to propaganda techniques and then identify examples in the text.
After discussing these examples, students explore the use of propaganda
in popular culture by looking at examples in the media.
Students identify examples of propaganda techniques used in clips of online
political advertisements and explain how the techniques are used
to persuade voters. Finally students explore the similarities of the propaganda
techniques used in the literary text and
in the online political ads to explain the commentary the text is making about
contemporary society.
In this lesson, some specific references are made to Brave New World as examples.
A text list suggests additional novels, short stories, plays, and movies that
will
also
work
for this activity.
FactCheck.org
Brilliant resource from the Annenberg Public Policy Center. My research and experience with the 21st Century Information Fluency Project has revealed that teenagers HATE to fact check. Luckily, FactCheck.org also has a highly developed classroom section that provides in-depth lesson plans and media links.\n\nThis is a treasure trove!
Cite the Source (Elementary Citation)
An interactive training game to teach basic citation at the elementary level.
Who is the owner? (Elementary)
This is the Elementary version of our Publisher investigation training.
Who is the Author? (Elementary Verstion)
This is the elementary version of our Author Investigator game.
21st Century Information Fluency
Information Fluency: It's Elementary
Workshop materials focusing on Five Things Elementary Students Should Know before starting middle school. that makes creating MLA electronic
Lots of new search challenges and lesson guides!online journal articles and reference databases.
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Information Fluency: It's Elemenatary
Workshop materials focusing on Five Things Elementary Students Should Know before starting middle school. that makes creating MLA electronic
Lots of new search challenges and lesson guides!online journal articles and reference databases.
SSEC In the News - August/September 2000
Link to Launchspace. some credibility. This is an edu site and a publication from an 'information officer'. Truncates to Space Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison. Improves the credibility of launchspace.
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Launchspace
Once again SSEC is listed in Launchspace magazine’s annual directory. The magazine’s Dec./Jan. edition is a directory of the “global satellite and space marketplace.” -
Direct comments, questions, and information about other SSEC media appearances to SSEC's Public Information Officer. For information about past media appearances, visit the SSEC In the News page.
Space Daily Express - Space in the 21st Century
another aggregator page from the same publisher. They are pushing their feeds. None of these sites have a search box.
Terra Daily Express - 24/7 Coverage Of Earth in the 21st Century
Third publication from this same publisher. provides no significant creditability by association.
SpaceWar Express - Your World At war 24/7
Another publication from the publishers of the Green Energy site. (I'm assuming this because the template and layout are identical. This one focuses on military issues. No mention or links visible for launchspace.
Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment
Truncated url to get to landing page. A link reported by Yahoo link: Quick search did not reveal a connection. used google site: search for the word launchspace nothing.
Site aggregates energy oriented stories. has a number of relevant feeds. However as an aggregate site selling selling ads this link doesn't provide much credibility by association for launchspace.com
Earth from Space - Search Earth-Human Interactions
NASA photo archive potential for 'great wall seen from the moon' hoax.
This is a simple database of photos that has "search" potential
The Credibles - What to trust on the internet
For ThinkQuest 2007, we wanted to work on an issue that is of prime concern to today’s high schoolers and college goers. We asked around and the first thing that most people talked about was the trustworthiness of online information - can we cite Wikipedia in our school projects, should we believe stuff written on blogs, are Google’s search results biased, is it safe to use one’s debit card number to book movie tickets online, should we update our bank account information on the internet... the list goes on.
That’s why we decided to talk about the credibility of the web. After all, we students are connected to the internet almost all our waking hours, and what better platform than one of the top website design competitions, to talk about the credibility of websites itself.
We are the Credibles, and we’ll help you decide what information on the internet to believe in and what to dismiss as fake.
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The internet, we all know, is notoriously unreliable. It is also the premier source of information in both the developed and the developing world. This makes the question of credibility of web based information very important. As students, we constantly refer to the internet for information.
But can we trust what we read on the net ? Are online searches trustworthy?
We the Credibles, try to bring up this extremely complicated issue in a simple yet interesting and comprehensive manner. We trust that after going through our materials, readers will be able to make better choices about what to trust and what not to trust on the internet.
Information Fluency & Forensics
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Web Site Investigator Training: AUTHOR
Strengthen your ability to find and evaluate the author of the information. View the slide show below.
Information Fluency Homepage
Gateway to hundreds of free online resources focused on 21st Century Information Fluency.
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Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically.
Evaluating Digital Information: Introduction, Research, Resources
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Every school administrator wants to maintain a safe distance between objectionable material and impressionable students. Blocking students from potential contact with sexual predators and other malinformation is absolutely well-intended. However, blocking sites does not help students think critically about the quality of the information they retrieve or prepare them for the real world of information they encounter outside of school.
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Teachers may contribute to the problem by introducing filters of their own into learning experiences. In practice, it works like this: a teacher wants her class to access digital information, so she conducts a search ahead of time and selects web pages she finds credible and appropriate. Students then engage in a Web quest using pages or sites that have approved content. Aside from the intended benefits of the exercise, the students have missed an opportunity to learn skills in searching and evaluating that they need in the 21st century.
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