JRG Computer Applications Ms. Froze: Information Literacy

Offering real life experiences is a goal of ours at J.R. Gerritts Middle School. We encourage our students to become life long learners and develop skills to help them take charge of their own learning and to create their own learning opportunities.
The Computer Applications Department at J.R. Gerritts Middle School is designed to prepare our students for the 21st Century. Students are engaging in technical applications more and more and we strive to make sure our students are ready.
We not only teach the technical abilities, but also the less concrete aspects. We teach our students how to critically think through a task, work in teams collaboratively and how to reach out to the global community using the technology readily available to us.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Information Literacy

Key questions to ask when evaluating a website:

1. Is the source accurate and authoratative?
2. Is it up to date?
3. Can I identify bias in this source?

Here's a great resource for learning how to evaluate sites:
University of California at Berkeley Library's Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (http://lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html)

Also check out the Way Back Machine at: http://www.archive.org/index.php for a fun look at what a website looked like throughout the years! (Great way to see how technology has changed over the years!!)