Evaluating Websites

Evaluating websites is critical to being able to provide valuable resources to your students. If we do not take the time to evaluate websites we put ourselves at risk for giving and receiving false or erroneous information. If we are not evaluating the teaching strategies we research online, we could be in danger of employing harmful strategies rather than credible evidence based practices. We also need to be able to show students how to critically evaluate website information for themselves. By doing this we are able to provide our students with important tools for their future success in both academic research and personal research and self-education. An activity similar to the one we completed in this class could be used in order to guide students' thinking about what factors they need to take into account in order to determine the credibility of a website.