Submitted by: Morgan Hendrick (amshenrick)
School: Brookland Middle School
Summary
With the explosion of information available at student’s fingertips, it is easy for students to confuse accurate information with inaccurate information. Evaluating the accuracy of website information is an important 21st century skill that student’s need to acquire, as research will be something student’s will continue to do their entire lives. In this lesson students will learn how to evaluate websites for relevancy and accuracy and create their own tool to help them evaluate other websites in the future.
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Students will research techniques to help them evaluate the accuracy of information on websites. The teacher modeled strategies using an online tutorial. Students synthesised that information into a website rubric that could be used on any website. Students then took that tool to evaluate the information they would be using for their upcoming research project.
Students will communicate with each other about the characteristics of good websites and collaborate in small groups to develop a digital rubric to use in future research. The teacher provided an opportunity for students to work in small groups to create a rubric with which to evaluate websites. The students used MS word to create the document.
Students will work together to create a working rubric that can be used to evaluate websites. The teacher has provided an authentic task for students and included strategies and digital tools to solve this problem. Students justified their decision making process by using the rubric to evaluate other websites.
Students will create a digital rubric of their own using MS.Word. The teacher included connections between tools that have already been created and the need to create a personal tool. Students took that knowledge and created a digital tool that they could then use to evaluate websites on their own.
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