Educators
Curation and reviewing websites searching for fake news and helping students to be excellent cruators of informationto help them to shift through the large amounts of information that they engage with in their lives. The upcoming generation more than any other needs these skills and strategies to access, evaluate and store materials that they find on line. This page and the following ones contain tasks to help students look for information and then to store or curate information that they want to use.
Sources of KnowledgeFinding and Organising information
There are millions of online information sources with varying degrees of accurate information. When it comes to making an informed decision about something important then data and information accuracy is essential. So how do you know that the information is accurate? Use the evaluation tool to check out two of your websites. |
To Google or Not to Google!While Google is perhaps the most popular search engine on the web today there are many other search engines available - some of which have been specifically designed with education in mind.
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'Good' versus 'bad' information
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Who Owns Information?The issues of copyright and intellectual property should be considered when conducting your inquiry. We should always acknowledge the person or organisation who has provided the information. (This is partly why you need to include a bibliography).
If someone was using your work do you think they should say where they got it from? |
Tasks1) Use 2 search engines and search the same phrase related to your investigation to determine what different sites are presented to you.
2) Evaluate two websites that you want to use using the rubric provided. 3) Time to support your peers and perform a critique, to present your data to your peer group and get feedback and critique. Critique and Support - Questions and Instructions here. |