Gonna get this blog going :D
Jbizzle is that you?
Evaluating sources can be tough for some students, especially with the internet when anyone can make a website and spew what ever “facts” they want to.
Also a great tool to teach evaluating thinking skills.
This law regulates what websites can collect about children under the age of 13. It is why children under the age of 13 are not allowed on Facebook (although I’m sure Facebook would love to have this). There are good reasons why this act is in place, and I really wish that more parents understood this. A number of students at the school I just left had facebooks as young as 9, with their parents helping them set it up by lying about their birth date.
If the kind of text our students are encountering in these online travels is embedded with so many links and media, and if those texts are connected to other associated pages (with even more links and media), hosted by who-knows-whom, the act of reading online quickly becomes an act of hunting for treasure, with red herrings all over the place that can easily divert one’s attention. As educators, we need to take a closer look at what online reading is all about and think about how we can help our students not only navigate with comprehension but also understand the underlying structure of this world.
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The more we incorporate technology and internet sources in the classroom, the more important it is to teach students how to work with internet articles and websites.
