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It's not a reliable site because it's not academic. It's a personal web site (visible from the domain). No information about the autho and source. This is something students must learn to do ....... be critical on the realiability of any piece information they find on the web.

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It's a good webside.

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This is a personal web page in .net domain and the story is about endangered species which is not reliable. Website is made in Cascadia. There is no information about the author.

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The site is a person's kind of blog. The domain is net. It was last updated 29/01/2015. the author is not affiliated with any educational institution of organization.

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I often work with my students about false information, mistakes or unclear informations. There r context that in some ways seems reliable and sometime... no!

See:

www.lercio.it

www.ilsalentoxix.altervista.org

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As mentinionted by Ollie the first clue is the website address. Although the content seems ridiculous to us 'an octopus living out of water' students may well take it as fact. So we need to point out other discrepancies: the author is not associated with an institute of education, there are no references for the content, the author cannot be contacted and there is no indication of when the website was last updated. These are just some examples it would be interesting to see what the students come up with and what ideas they would have for creating fake content. I am not aware of other sites in school we use work sheets containing false advertising which is something simialar but this is far more interesting and informative.

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It's a good webside

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I have always taught my students to check for links and resources when it comes to using a site information or publish theirs.

I haven't come across such an informative site as I have come across fake social media pages. So, I 'll use it to put more emphasis on it and increase their awareness of the issue of fabricated info.As for the site presented, a good observation of the photo and details can lead you to fake info. I have seen and spotted such sites in Greek, my native language, as a form of parody towards the main theme or subject.

As an EFL teacher I would use more English site to exemplify the above

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I dont know any pages just like it, but we have some similar pages that we sometimes use for students to see that they cant trust everything they read. One of them "ikkepedia".

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The clues which show that it is a fake website are:

a) The author is Zapato and it is not reliable.

b) The domain is .net

c) It has lack of scientific links, e.t.c.

But for sure I will use it in class for making students wondering and searching.

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This site is a joke, I could see it from the very name of non existing animal. Sea creature climbing the tree :) I did not look any further.

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I will use this website in my class!

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Lo siento pero domino el inglés.

Si alguien sabe alguna publicación en castellano?

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it's a good webside

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As it is a personal website, there is a great probability this octapus to be fake...Having a look on the purpose of this page we can understand more about it's services...

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it's so interesting the idea to make our students become new sherlock holmes, online detectives to discover not the murderer but real news!

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This is a really good hoax website, there are really few clues that I can recognize about a fake:

The domain is personal (Zapato is the name of the author, Lyle Zapato), so there is no reliability on that

There are no scientific links

In some photos the octopus is clearly a blue muppet

Sometimes on the upper right corner some strange sentences such as "Don't eat the lies, they are feeding you" appear

Following the link to the main webpage (http://zapatopi.net) we discover a whole website about strange news

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First of all, we can see this is a personal site and the extrension .net is not one of high credibility. There are also not many reliable credentials seen on this website. Another thing that makes it unrealiable is that it obviously aims at raising money. But honestly speaking if it weren't for your verdict of this being a hoax site, I would never tell there was something wrong.

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As teachers is important to help student to develop critical attitudes towards the mass of information they get nowadays, in every context.

This video helped me to think and project activities to help my students to investigate and find the right information they need.

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To make students aware of the reliability of web pages, I make them editing wikipedia pages and ask classmates to find changes to the original... ;)

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Talking about reliability of digital content is crucial because our students lack that skill. Olly has pointed out many important clues. The digital content of this page is not credible and the URL name suggests that this is a personal page. Furthermore, the domain lacks reliability (no 'gov', 'edu' or other names in the url) and the links to the documented sources are not reliable. I also find the page very confusing.

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I don't think octopus can live up in a tree, and this, among other similar inaccuracies, make me believe this site is a fake, though it seems very real and is very nice. I always advise my students to be careful about all the information they get. We have to develop a critical point of view about everything we see and read.

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I do agree with Ollie that we have to teach our students to be critical about the information they find online and that it's important to teach them some tips to assess credibility of online resources. Many students tend to believe everything they read or see online and do not worry or aren't aware of the lack of reliability of some websites. The website on

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I agree with Ollie's video. I reccomend to my student to verify every kind of information, even if those coming from books and...from me!!For as concerning the video, I'm not able to understand if the site is fake, because I'm not intereted to animal world...Furthermore I never heard anything abou "Republic of Cascadia"...but it should be the only clue!!

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Cascadia? Never heard about this place. Site is probably fake. Students and teachers must be very careful about the information coming from internet and uses them in teaching process.

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Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus might be a very realistic and convincing site: there are a lot of links to other sites. However there are some elements that can suggest it’s a fake site. First of fall the domain “.net”. It’s written “made in Cascadia” but Cascadia is not an independent state. There is not an about us section. Finally the site wasn’t uploaded since it was created in the 17 May 2015.

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It's fake, but is very nice site. I'll try to use it in a lesson!!!

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It's a fake.. but it's a nice site.. it could be used by students.

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This is a fake site?

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I love this website, thank you for sharing and cannot share anything comparable. On the first sight it is very convincing for unexperienced internet users. Then information or better said misformation given to contact, academic purpose, updated, FAQs, let students understand how easy they can be trapped by false information. I always (try to) let my students compare pieces of information from different sources different websites and they found out that sometimes less but realiable information are more valuable than a full firework of facts they cannot verify

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It is a amazing exaple of website for invistigation.I use the same tests with my students. I think it improves their critical thinking

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This Websites is a good example of what everyone of our student could stumble on and believe in it. It is so critical to show it to our students and teach them to be detectives like Ollie formentioned.

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The article is totally unreliable because no author is mentioned and no contact is given. The text is not academic, it doesn't give truthfulness.

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The article seems to be realistic but as soon as you click for further information you can find things that are not related with the title.

My students are very young but I will tell them to pay attention when they surf the internet and I will look for something similar in Italian to show them. The video is very useful to inform teachers and also older students.

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I read... made in CASCADIA...

where is it?

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I think someone had a great idea of making money and starting a kind of cult:) We know how film characters become a money-making machine - children want anything with an image of Nemo, minions, you name it... and parents can't say No, of course. Zapatopi looks suspicious as soon as you look at it: the zapatopi url, the photo of the person behind it, fake video, old dates, and the content, of course. However, i should say it is cleverly done: the text sounds like a real text form a textbook or wikipedia, there are different rubrics and so on. But as soon as you find the link offering to buy goods with images of this interesting creature, you know what it's all about.

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In my opinion it is a sort of humoristic page!

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I agree –
this is an example of the internet content with no credibility!

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My students are too young to have a look at it. The information the web offers it seems to me absurd and a bit weird, the links sometimes stop working. In the Url there is no realible domain, even the photographs ...

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In the first place, the article looks like a cartoon, it doesn't seem reliable, so as the site. It does not bring veracity and trustworthy quotations or references.

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2.2.a. Content and Copyright - reliability of digital content

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I’ve already taught with students about the necessity to be critical on the web and we made different activities, so it’s very good to have new ideas like these.

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I can't think of similar pages, but this one comes to mind: It's fun and humoristic.

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Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share, do a funky dance, and add your best comedic writing!

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I often talk to my students about fake websites or information that just doesn't exist, in scholar books too.

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It is very good example to show how web sites use knowledge to present. I like it.

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Unfortunately my class pupils are too young to do a similar analysis of a web site. In my opinion this website is obviously a false. In my opinion the things let us think it is not a true website are: there aren't academic links; the last update was in 2010; there isn't a "Contacts" section.
I don't know a similar website to show you.

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At the beginning of my classes I started a discussion with my students about reliability. We talk a lot that we can't trust everything that we read or see online. But my students seem that already know that so we have a great discussions full with examples

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Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax and it's a good example of unreliable information:

- no academic links or references and zapatopi.net is not a domain of a university
- no updated since 2010
- no author's credentials
I often work with my students about mistakes contained in textbooks, on Web, etc ... or on unclear informations. I suggest some activities to analize contents and develop their critical thinking, because today's students are not prepared to critically evaluate the information they find. See:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/treeoctopus.asp and Hoaxes museum

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Hoaxes, Mischief, and Misinformation Throughout History

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A very good example of website to be investigated with our students! The information is false but the context at first sight seems reliable. I have to search for similar websites in Italian language, I promise to do it

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A good example of how websites can show fals information in a context that in some ways seems reliable. But first of all the webside URL should give a us a clue. Zapata.net. Anyone can register a .net domain, no contact or business information. The little commercial add in the top right corner does not fit in, in my opinion.

The FAQs page is hilarious. I fancy the part on how to donate money.

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Good exemple to explain students the critical thinking!!

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With my students I always tell them to look for information from scientific magazines, university or government institutions. When searching information they usually limit the search by using site:ul.pt for University of Lisbon or to other academic institution.

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- I don´t trust pages that don't have the contact.

- isn't a educational organization.

- strange URL: zapatopi.net

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First of all no contact buttom, Second, the mesagge about Sasquatch is a fake. In the FAQ we find how to say in different language Tree Octopusses, and In Italian there is no word which speaks about "polipo dell'albero". It does not exist. The url is unknown and it uses just a .net extension.

I have not managed to find a site with many fakes in my mother tongue.

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http://necyklopedie.wikia.com/ - there is fake Wikipedia in Czech

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A great example of having in mind the credibility of the information aquired from the internet. I always tell children to search in well-known websites .

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(1) Lyle Zapato doesn't seem reliable at all

(2) Info about contact is non existent

(3) The website's last update was in 2015-01-29, 8 months ago

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Looking for infos about the guy that builded the website, I found his FAQ, that are hilarious at least...

Just one example:

FAQ: How are you doing?

Answer: Fine. You?

It lets me think all written things are for fun. And they are for a biologist? Look around for Rhynopodes or Rinopodia as well...

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It is a very good exmple to show students what they have to check. It is important to teach our students how to recognize both fakes and good sites

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Critical thinking is of utmost importance and one of the skills our students need to develop in order to cope in the future. I have the links of a couple of these fake webpages but I haven't found any in my own language.

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Great sample of checking reliability. Contact information does not exist and the author of the site, Lyle Zapato seems unreliable as well.

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The first thing I notice is the big headline at the top of the page: "Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus".

Then, in the bottom of the page, written in small font: "Not to be confused with the Pacific Northwest Octopus Tree".

It's definitely not something that helps the reliability of this site.

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I'm definitely going to build a learning activity around this website! I'm going to create a grid and students will fill in the relevant information and then we are going to discuss together if it is reliable.

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I have just watched the website suggested by Ollie, I agree with him that it would be very interesting to show it to the students in order to teach them skills focused on digital clues to become online dectetives.

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It is very important to teach students to be critical.

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Well the information war is at it's peak these days with both sides overusing any materials aquired. The Refugees entering Europe are an excellent emple of how difficult it is to workout a reliable view on the matter. Furthermore sides of conflict use the internet as the means of propaganda... http://www.prisonplanet.pl is one of the Polish sites that publishes information without respectable sources.

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I'm going to teach children next year (last year of kindergarten) about the "rule of 3" - before you believe any information, you need to search and investigate at least 3 web pages.

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As teachers, we should tell our students that websites cannot always be trusted to provide truthful and accurate data. just cause it looks funny and colourful it doesn not means it is good and relaivable. Some other Spoof Websites are:

Dog Island,

Flying Penguins,

Dehydrated Water,

Belgium doesn't exist
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Quite funny - a bit like the “sea monkeys” you could cultivate many years ago. As a child I realy thought it would work. There have been a lot of good examples on what is wrong with the credability on the site. Another thing is the color - it does not look credible.

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Of course the story of the North pacific tree octopus is fake. you find back the story in the museum of hoaxes.

They speak also about his natural enemies: The Sasquatch is compare to the bigfoot stories and used in sciencefiction movies. Zapatopi.net is not compared to the Kelvinic University. On https://pnwtreeoctopus.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/im-a-sucker-for-a-good-website/ you can find a good way to discover this website is a hoax.

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It's clearly fake because the domain is in no connection to any school or university (and that's written at the bottom too!), there aren't any academic links, the page hasn't been updated in ages and so on. The story I tell my students in relation to this topic is the one about spiders the average person eats during sleep. Almost everyone heard about it, but they never questioned that information.

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Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is a fake, of course ...

- No academic links

- No updated FAQ since 2010 and also very funny

- Fonts are improper to a scientific information

- At the end of the web page "about" is cited the Kelvinic University branch of the Wild Haggis Conservation Society.

Like wrote Valentino Pietrobon, "the Web site of Kelvinic University has the same domain of the article on the three octopus. But the domain zapatopi.net is not a domain of a university. Much more information can be fount at https://pnwtreeoctopus.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/im-a-sucker-for-a-good-website/"

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Thank you again Ollie for sharing all that. How I would ask my pupils to proceed: 1. Investigate the page: No academic links whatsoever. + no updatd FAQ since 2010 + a truly hilarious FAQ library . 2: Google the phrase "Pacific....Octopus" if you doubt the reliability of the site.

But I love studying the implicit goals of Lyle Zappato: So thoughtfull mise en abyme of the virtual world sometimes; And, so comical. A great artist to me!

I also love this one : http://m.snopes.com/15-days-darkness-november/

What are the best hoaxfinder site to you?

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It's our task as teacher to help our students to develop their criteria to see when information can be a fake. Then we must tell them to keep searching reliable webs to learn.

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In the homepage of the website about the Pacific Northwest Octopus you can perceive immediately that the drowing and the letters are improper to a scientific information

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It's a good example of unreliable information: no author's credentials; no references; who's ever heard of the Kelvinic University; the photos are unbelievable.

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Here some jokes on a recent fake http://www.gravita-zero.org/2015/08/27-agosto-marte-sara-grande-quanto-la.html

(sorry, it is in italian)

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It’s a very good example to use with classes, even if something, in the colors, the graphical structure, suggests this is a joke… But it is important to give young people the critical tools of selecting and managing information: the students are very fond of “copy-and-paste” procedure, without too many reflections!

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When I saw the pictures only, i knew it's fake. But kids would bite the bait. So I would guide them to search further for this kind of Octopus, who is author etc. In Slovenia there are fake shopping pages.

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Very good educational case! Here a Bulgarian example which can be used to teach the topic related to the reliability : http://www.spiralata.net/

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Виртуална духовна библиотека - Спиралата

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Funny page for kids! Not a serious webpage design.

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Tree Octopus? Oh, come on! Nice photo!

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The information is too much. It raises doubts about it's truthfulness. We must look critically at the content of this website.

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The front page of the website looks quite credible, however, if you click a couple of links, they lead you to some Conspiracy theory site, or non-existant news sections... In Serbia we have njuz.net where they publish 'the daily news in the mirror', as they say, and make it rather ridiculous. I even got foolled by it once!

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In a world of a thousand deceptions it is important to give young people the critical tools to understand and distinguish.

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http://www.tokoulouri.com/

news in a funny - fixed way.

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As it is obvious that the webside above is "fake" I thought of a German website that is similar. It is probably not intended to make students aware of what reliability in the web looks like but though can help students to identify features of a reliable source (namely the opposite of this site).

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Welches Lebewesen zählt zu den seltensten Kuriositäten im Tierreich des Thüringer Waldes?

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As librarian, I often talk to students about reliability of digital content and worn them about fake content they could find on Internet as well about reliable sites like .com, .gov .hr and so on.

After checking this website it looks like it is created for fun with nonexisting species, unrealible content, bad web-design

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https://stilulmeunatural.wordpress.com/masti-naturale/masti-naturale-2/

It is well build but there are several fake information. The face masks are not miracle makers.

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Fake websites is something we need to enlighten our students about.

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I was welcoed by misspelt words and also, with the little science I know, there were contradicting info regarding location/habitat

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All this confirms that digital skill is a transversal one, which includes the skill of selecting and managing information for a meaninful purpose.

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I often talk to my students about fake websites, or information that just doesnt exist. And there are times that my 17 years old students are more informed about these site than me.

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The site is very beautiful but the content seems kiddish. It is very interesting to show it to my students and given as an activity to find the reliability of the content given on this site by comparing them with other sources like books.

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https://www.blogger.com/profile/15146806500757280425

Conclusion:The site is colorful and well constructed. It claims to be affiliated with conservation groups that give it credibility at a first glance. It lists media tab, FAQ's, Sightings, and offers terminology that looks official. There is a tab for a promotion for tree octopus kit.
The site is created by an individual and not on behalf of any organization. Upon further reading, many of the claims are so ridiculous that one can infer that the tree octopus is a fabrication.
This is definitely not a site appropriate for elementary and middle school students as some of the links lead to sites whose content may not be suitable for students ten and under.Posted by Kimberly Thompson at 8:36 AM

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In today's too much overloaded information on the websites, it is quite hard to find what you really need and sometimes you are got lost in many fake or unreliable information. As an adult we have problems to analyze the true information, how can the stdents manage this? So, one of the most important point is to make syudents aware of the facts and train them in digital search as much as possible.

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I have just watched the website suggested by Ollie, I agree with him that it would be very interesting to show it to the students in order to teach them skills focused on digital clues to become online dectetives. It's not so difficult to find on Internet other unreliable websites or blogs; we could suggest to our pupils some activities to analyze the contents of these websites and present to them to their classemates sharing ideas and knowlodge.