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Bogus website for teaching web literacy

"Evaluate websites with variations and extensions of skills you use to evaluate print materials."

This was great, gave me lots of ideas, stage 4 PDHPE does have a requirement to do some of this, but not to this dept. Global citizens!

"Fourteen years after writing Teaching Zack to Think, there is still no Internet skill more critical than Web literacy. However, simply teaching students to be able to search for and validate information is not enough. The ever-growing amount of information on the Web and the immediate access to experts and peers from around the world create great opportunities for thoughtfully organizing and expanding upon learning. Alan November and Brian Mull have recently written an article titled Why More Schools Aren't Teaching Web Literacy-and How They Can Start, which now appears on the eSchool News site and discusses a three-part framework for making sure students are Internet savvy."

"Is your high school teaching students to access the Internet for research? Then it is essential that students also learn how to validate the information. The Internet is a place where you can find "proof" of essentially any belief system that you can imagine. And, for too many students, "If it is on the Internet, it is true.""

search strategies for the web

Way Back Machine, accessing history of web content

Another bogus website to use with students: It takes hundreds of years to form and only minutes to vaporize... Pure, refreshing, crystal clear, filtered, and compressed dehydrated water.