Librarians are the best source of this "evaluation" stuff, in my experience -- they've
taken the basic techniques of evaluating "dead tree" resources and applied to the Net.
This "evaluate the source" stuff should have been part of curriculum all along, IMO.
I can rummage around for URLs if anyone is interested .... there are a lot of
librarians on the NetTrain list, BTW.
> Kathy E. Gill
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> > My kids aged 11 and 9 have been using the internet for all of their
> > projects. Now both they and their teachers assume that the web will be
> > the main research tool. While some topics are covered better than others,
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> Do they get any training in how to assess the validity, truthfulness
> etc of the material they are accessing?
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