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This piece articulates why students need to be taught information literacy skills and be exposed to a variety of information sources on the web. "Students today write reports from information they find on the internet. They need to understand this type of new information source and the network it comes from. Students are making connections with many different kinds of people, actively looking for and soliciting different points of view. They need to develop the skill to work out just who are the experts are in the crowd and then using a "blend of personal and social information" to predict the best solution,create the best content and ask the best questions."

This site offers a great annotated list of links to resources on the topics: Internet safety, cyberbullying, Digital responsibility, Media and digital literacy and other resources from Edutopia

Food for thought in terms of what students know about internet information and what we teach them.

School Libraries and Information Literacy links Internet sites linked here support aspects of the professional and collaborative work of teacher-librarians. They include some intranet sites that only NSW Departmental schools can access. The views expressed by individual Web sites are not necessarily those of the NSW Department of Education and Communities.

Research project: by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project on teens research habits.