The internet is a part of daily life for most Americans. It's a spectacular tool, granting quick and easy access to billions of pages on every topic imagineable. Many educational sites exist, full of high-quality learning tools and information sources...a potential windfall for teachers and students alike.
BUT, mixed in with those gems are millions of inaccurate, deficient and/or misleading webpages. Are your students able to tell the difference? Are you?
You can arm your students (and yourself!) with a few critical thinking skills that will help them choose the right sites from every web search they perform. Six criteria (the critic's checklist) are all they'll ever need:
Authority
Accuracy
Coverage
Objectivity
Currency
Navigation
Put them to the test! Click here for an exercise in Web criticism.
