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Evaluating Web Pages

With the millions of web sites now on the Internet, it can be challenging to select sites for instructional and student use.

With the millions of web sites now on the Internet, it can be challenging to select sites for instructional and student use. Students also need to know how to evaluate the information they find on the Internet.

In Evaluating Web sites in K-12 Education, Martha Wiseman provides simple tools and resources to K-12 teachers.

Evaluating Web Pages, from UC Berkeley, provides tools you can use to quickly evaluate information on any web page. [Highly recommended by our webmaster.]

Eastern Michigan University provides an on-line course looking at how to evaluate web sites and addressing issues such as fake or hoax e-mails.

With the reliance of students, teachers, business people ... well, everyone ... on the Internet and its resources, it's imperative that everyone has the tools needed to evaluate and identify good and bad sites. Use sites with an obvious bias to introduce students to this concept. Use some of the resources and challenges outlined here to equip students to become savvy consumers of net information.