This week’s topics reminded me of how I long to work with students in the K-12 setting. There is so much information that I have and continue to learn and I want to share it with the youth. At this point I am seriously thinking about volunteering in the schools.
The online resource of Diigo is a Web tool that can be very helpful for teachers and students. I recently began to fill up my account again and have found new websites and ideas for lesson plans and activities. In the many experiences I’ve had with teachers from various school districts, there have not been any teachers who use Diigo in the classroom. This is such a shame because it is not only a great resource but a way for students to keep potential research material organized.
And in keeping with the theme of organization, we also discussed the importance of Web evaluation. I spent time in a high school in the Greece school district whose librarian often gave the students the CRAP test tutorial. (Currency, Reliability, Authority, Purpose/Point of View). This method was used to help the students evaluate different websites. The tutorial helped the students realized that not all websites are reliable. As one class member pointed out in the discussion thread, about the white supremacist website under the disguise of a Martin Luther King site.
Many of our students in the schools often get inaccurate and incorrect information from fraudulent and non-fraudulent websites. Teens and children will search the Internet for information. It is important that we equip them with the skills to recognize fact from fiction while searching for information.
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