Teachings Act to Think.

In the article from November Learning. The writer gives a great example of how students sometimes look at the Internet when researching a topic.there has to be a greater emphasis on those in education, to take the time to teach the right way to research topics on the Internet.

I like his idea on how to evaluate a a good source on the Internet. putting information into the three categories of purpose, author and meta-web information will help the learner determine if the website is giving factual information.

1. The purpose: Teaching kids to see what the purpose of the website is to help them determine if the website is giving authentic information. This is something that has to be taught.

2. The author: students doing a research project need to take the time to use websites to determine an author's background.

3. Meta-Web Information: the author shows examples of websites that are personal or professionally made. any site, whose URL has the author's name in its has to be taken with a grain of salt. These URLs are usually from websites that are connected to personal ISPs such as Cox or Qwest. Cox and Qwest will give out space for personal websites in which people can put anything they want on. These are sites that students need to be aware of and be careful of. In doing research. They need to see if the information on the sides is accurate and truthful. I like how the author gives some ideas on how to go about doing this. This is an article that I will end out to teachers who use the computer labs to do research. This is a vital piece of information. vital piece of information