Remember November for Information Literacy Resources
February 7, 2008
Are your students aware of the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide? Every year it’s directly responsible for hundreds of deaths, yet it’s perfectly legal. It’s colorless. It’s odorless. It’s tasteless.
It’s water.
As a teacher, it’s up to you to teach students how to discern joke sites like DHMO.org from real online resources. Fortunately, you don’t have to go it alone. Renowned educational guru Alan November has a series of Information Literacy Resources that will help your students evaluate the information they consume.
November introduces strategies like using www.easywhois.com to find out the publisher of a website, and to remember that any nutcase with WiFi can register a site with a .com, .net or .org in its URL. You’ll also find quizzes, and suggestions of practice sites for your students to evaluate.
Teaching information literacy is every teacher’s job. Hopefully these resources will make that job easier. Because you never know when a kid will start circulating a petition to ban water. -BILL FERRIS
Information Literacy Resources via November Learning
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