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I believe that it is of utmost importance for students to understand how to evaluate online sources for accuracy and validity. A number of my students believe that just because something is on the internet that it is true. We need to dispel this idea and help them to learn how to determine if a site contains accurate information. Students need to learn how to identify whether information on a site is good or bad. They need to learn how a domain name can tell them whether or not a site is credible. There are so many things that students need to learn not only when searching for accurate information, but also in an effort to stay safe online.

N Swain

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It is important as educators that we help students to differentiate between credible information obtained from the internet. They will be researching using search engines, personal or educational and they need to learn how to have discernment about what they should use as valid information. Teachers should design lessons which help them to see the difference.
D. Morgan

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It is very important that students learn the proper ways to navigate the internet and how to find credible,valid, and safe websites. The use of technology is more prevalent in today's school lessons and workplaces, than its ever been. If we educators are trained and learn proper and safe ways to use the internet, then we can teach the students how to find reliable sources and be safe with their information.

S.Cherry

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As the article states, it is very important that students are trained to use the internet sites correctly.  Teachers and librarian must demonstrate to students what different websites look like, their purpose, and show them how to find good online content.  Students have to be introduced to scholarly search engines.

D. Hopkins

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I think students should be taught in all classes how to validate and check the credibility of websites, but especially in the technology classes and English classes. Most teachers do not teach the students how to conduct research or check for credibility or sources. Many of my students don't even understand that google is a search engine and gives a list of websites that pertains to the information they typed into the search bar. I have to constantly correct them and tell them to scroll down and click on the websites, and also not to just write down the first thing that they see. I encourage them to check multiple sites and if they see the same things on all or most of those sites, them it's okay to use that information. It's most definitely a challenge when they are used to Siri and Alexa giving them answers on demand, and they don't know how to look for information because the answer it is always quickly handed to them. But we as educators MUST show and teach them how to effectively search for and evaluate information, they are our future.

T. Brackett

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Even as adults we all see information that may be untrue and run with it so we can expect that children/teenagers are doing the same, and probably more frequently.  There is so much information on the internet to for us to sift through so we need to make sure we are teaching our students to be thorough and critical when seeking information on line.  Teaching our children to effectively evaluate information retrieved on line is a MUST in this day and age.

L. Mullens-Jennings

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According to the article, strategies to help students to effectively evaluate what they see on the Internet, practice refuting what is on the Internet, and cross-check claims on the internet is highly recommended. In other words, becoming critical consumers of online material means more than just viewing a website. In today's world of technology student are using the internet for learning purposes as they research questions and varies other learning  content that may be required of them. Modeling effective and safe internet usage helps them see how they should use each kind of site. Students should avoid inappropriate sites and determine what information is credible. According to the article, demonstrating to students how to cross-check is a great way for students to see how credible some online content is, and it encourages them to explore other content and evaluate it for its credibility. I prefer to use the approach of explicit teaching mini lessons to breakdown information so students can better understand internet literacy.

-W. Brackett

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Well, once the teacher (speaking about myself) learn how to evaluate online information then the he/she will understand the importance of teaching his/her students. I was always told to be careful of " .com" site but that was it. Children of today are so tech savvy that they are not careful. This is why they need to be taught how to determine good, quality website to use and to know your purpose in researching using a particular website.
S. McAdams

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Let's be honest. We all fall for some false information that we see online. Our young people are particularly susceptible as they gain a great majority of their information from a smart gadget with a small screen. Students must gain proper context for the information they are gathering. Students should be taught to check the relevancy, accuracy, and bias of everything they encounter online. Recent stories of Russian misinformation and the spread of the term "fake news" gives us additiona reason to protect ourselves by pursuing information carefully, thoughtfully, and aware of the various types of online media.
E. Ingold

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In replication to this article, as educators we require to insure that the academic learning of all of our students is met accordingly. Edifiers should have the capacity to distinguish between plausible and one-sided data. With plausible data edifiers will utilize the data to drive ordinate dictation. It's critical that edifiers and guardians advise students of the deception of online data. Edifiers should orchestrate academic studies that is perennial rudimentary to mastermind learning. Student academics, should be a verdant age of simple impact of what they unearthed online, so it's our obligation to have these progressing standards for learning.

D. Robinson

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It is a challenge with today's generation (secondary level students) for them to comprehend how the internet works. They want a quick fix, solution; find the information fast. There's no more "research" using books, magazines, etc. When students use the internet for research, they use the first article that pops up. No citations, no clear definition or information provided on the topic. They rarely attend to source features such as author, venue, or publication type to evaluate reliability and author perspective. When they do refer to source features in their explanations, their judgments are often vague, superficial, and lacking in reasoned justification. We as teachers, should not just pass the student(s) along, but hold them accountable until they get it right and do it the correct way.

Danyelle Smith

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The article clearly states it correctly.
Students will not know the word internet without someone to help them.
The issues we have with our students and the internet is not using it properly when finding sources. We as teachers should take the time to do short activities to show students what sites are credible and even acceptable.
This must continue through out the school year.

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The wonderful world wide web can be an exciting adventure, especially to someone that is not familiar with it.  However, these days our students are all over the web in more ways than one.  Many of them oftentimes are playing games; however, it seems that the majority of them are more interested in some form of social media.  Whether students are using social media or using the web as a resource, we need to make sure that they understand the difference between good and bad web sites.  This is done to ensure that our students are not gaining the wrong information as well as to ensure that they don't stumble across something that is meant to harm them as well.
M.D. Archer

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The article was stated it correctly:  Students won't know a world with the internet.  The issues we have with our students and the internet is not using it proper when finding sources.  We as teachers should take the time to do short activities to show ours students what sites are credible. This can be a continuous through out the school year.
L. Acree

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Whittle's "How to Teach Students to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information" is a good starting point for teachers to use in developing their students' awareness of the spectrum, from unreliable to fully credible, of any particular website's usefulness toward a research goal. Whittle's recommendations are concrete and easy to follow--so easy, in fact, one could imagine a bot being programmed to judge the veracity of an online resource. Distinguished domain suffix? Check. Expert author? Check. Regularly updated site? Check? Relevant to the research question? Check. What the bot could not do, however, is judge the reasonableness of online information. Yes, it could cross-reference a site with other "expert" sites to see if they match, but what if something new, paradoxical, or even on the fringe, cropped up? Were the internet around in 1920, our imagined bot would dismiss Einstein's article on relativity as hogwash--a fringe theory from a non-expert in the field with little history of writing about physics. One can imagine that the Einsteins of today (or even those who just think "differently") are similarly blacklisted from search results and other relevance criteria. That is why Whittle's criteria are a good place to start (especially for younger students), but the something that is "human" about judging truth, validity, credibility, reasonableness, and "fittingness" must also be developed in a student--perhaps even more so than Whittle's criteria of evaluation.

-R. Regan

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According to the article, strategies to help students to effectively evaluate what they see on the Internet, practice refuting what is on the Internet, and cross-check claims on the internet is highly recommended. In other words, becoming critical consumers of online material means more than just viewing a website. In today's world of technology student are using the internet for learning purposes as they research questions and varies other learning  content that may be required of them. Modeling effective and safe internet usage helps them see how they should use each kind of site. Students should avoid inappropriate sites and determine what information is credible. According to the article, demonstrating to students how to cross-check is a great way for students to see how credible some online content is, and it encourages them to explore other content and evaluate it for its credibility. I prefer to use the approach of explicit teaching mini lessons to breakdown information so students can better understand internet literacy.

-W. Brackett

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Websites are not equal in quality.  Web content is influenced by personal, special interest, profession, news, and commercial sites.  Understanding the differences among sites provides a way to identify writer bias.

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Websites are not equal in quality.  Web content is influenced by personal, special interest, profession, news, and commercial sites.  Understanding the differences among sites provides a way to identify writer bias.

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