Teaching Civics Identifying High-Quality Sites

Identifying High-Quality Sites

Posted By llad On July 27, 2017 @ 7:31 pm In | Comments Disabled

Students explore the idea that anyone can publish on the Internet, so not all sites are equally trustworthy.

Students will: understand how the ease of publishing on the Internet might affect how much they can trust the content of some sites; learn criteria that will help them evaluate websites; apply the criteria to a site to determine how trustworthy and useful it is.

Go to: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/lesson/identifying-high-quality-sites-6-8 ^[1]

This lesson would go well with Project Citizen ^[2] research.

Educator video (5:51): Using Critical Thinking to Find Trustworthy Websites: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/using-critical-thinking-to-find-trustworthy-websites ^[3]

tags: fake news, media literacy

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[1] https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/lesson/identifying-high-quality-sites-6-8: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/lesson/identifying-high-quality-sites-6-8

[2] Project Citizen: http://teachingcivics.org/programs/project-citizen/

[3] https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/using-critical-thinking-to-find-trustworthy-websites: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/using-critical-thinking-to-find-trustworthy-websites

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