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Navigating the Web: Critical Thinking for Reliable Information

Learn how to discern credible online sources from unreliable ones. Develop the skills to evaluate websites for accuracy, professionalism, and consistency. Empower yourself with tools to navigate the vast sea of information on the internet.

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Navigating the Web: Critical Thinking for Reliable Information

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  1. Friend or Foe? The Internet

  2. Why do you like to use the computer? • Fast • Lots of information • Interactive • Fun

  3. Love it or Hate it? • The Internet is a shallow and unreliable repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad spelling, and worse grammar inhabited largely by people with no social skills” • ~source unknown

  4. “The Web is a self publishing medium. There is no editorial or quality control over much of the content on the Web. Be a discriminate consumer of information.” • From Kentucky Virtual Library

  5. What is a student to do?

  6. Who Builds Websites? • .com • .org • .edu • .gov • .uk • .net

  7. For Example • www.peta.org • www.nationalgeographic.com • www.cdc.gov • www.stanford.edu

  8. Questions you MUST ask….. • Who is responsible for this information? • What is the purpose of this site? • Is the design of the site professional, well documented, and up to date? • Is this information consistent with other information about the topic? • Does this information make sense to me?

  9. Who is Responsible for this information? • www.wikipedia.com • www.martinlutherking.org • www.historychannel.com

  10. What is the purpose of this site? Persuade? Inform? Entertain?

  11. What is the purpose? • www.nra.org • www.bls.gov/oco

  12. Professional Design • http://www.georgehutchins.com/ • http://www.pbs.org/

  13. Cross Referencing • Does this information make sense to me? • Is this information consistent with what I already know? • http://descy.50megs.com/Emankato/mankato.html

  14. Now You Try • http://www.rythospital.com/2008/

  15. So What is a Student to do? • Ask questions • Use databases • Use a VARIETY of sources • Think Critically!!!!!!

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