SCHOOL LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE

Volume 7, Number 2, July 2001, 39-48.

Theme: Resources and Services for Special Groups

Evaluating Information on the Internet [PDF file]
Merran Ware
The Internet as a source of information is vast, disorganized, and continually in a state of flux between updating and stagnating. Students must develop strategies to cope with these problems. The Internet itself provides many opportunities/or students to be taught the skills of evaluation: appraisal, criticism, discrimination, comparison, ranking, and verification. It can provide the modeling of strategies for using search engines, how to distinguish between good and poor sites, and detecting misinformation.

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