The problem
The publication of information on the internet is less controlled and much less identified than those on the other media .It is so difficulet to navigate the amount of information available on the internet : new sites , forums , blogs and comments on social networks .
- How to know if the information on a website is reliable ?
- How to distinguish between reliable and unreliable websites ?
- what are the criteria of a reliable website ?
Objectives
Our students will be able to:
- Recognize that any information accessible on the internet can be validated and even verified
- Adopt strategies to evaluate the reliability of a website (to apply the reliability indices of a website using the CRAAP test )
- Develop their critical thinking in searching for information on the internet
- Discover hoaxes or canular information
- enumerate the criteria of a reliable website
Activities
- Brainstorming
- Websites comparison
- Watching video
- Playing some games
- Taking a quizand getting a certificate
Activity 1: Brainstorming
From a brainstorming session, our students will be asked to determine the criteria for evaluating the reliability of a website by answering the following driven question :
Driven question
You were asked to prepare a research about any topic . Once you searched for it via Google search , you would find yourself in front of different websites , so once you entered the website . What indices could you use to determine if the information over there is valid and reliable ?
Write down your ideas in one of these 2 links below
Link 1 ( forum )
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/48934/forum/48099/thread/805027
Link 2 ( google doc )
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s5PeG9WDHsOnRS8MIoGR8rqldLIlmzj2GDl0ti8W3e4/edit?usp=sharing
Activity 2 : websites comparison
Students will be divided into 2 teams . Each team will be given 2 documents one document to be read ( CRAAP test ) another document to complete by each team after analyzing 2 proposed websites.
Document 1 : The CRAAP test :
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/files/collabspace/4/34/934/48934/files/c5f185ca.pdf
Document 2 : A table of 2 websites reliable and unreliable to compare
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/files/collabspace/4/34/934/48934/files/b2cc5045.pdf
Examples of websites
Note please
To make this activity easier to our students, each partner will try to translate both documents ( CRAAP TEST and table for comparison ) and will provide websites in their mother languages for analyzing
By the way the CRAAP test was developed by Sarah Blakeslee and her team of librarians at California State University, Chico (CSU Chico) to check the reliability of sources across academic disciplines ( it is the test the most used nowdays )
Activity 3 : Let's take these activities
Watching a video
Students will watch the video in the link below:
https://youtu.be/yI8iIO1FXtA
Playing this game
To fix their ideas students will pass this crossword test via this link:
https://learningapps.org/display?v=pcav81oij18
Final production
when finsihing these different activities our students will share the work as follows :
- Students will make a poster where to mention the 5 indices of a reliable website
- A video where students from 5 countries will mention these 5 criteria of reliable websites
- an animated video grouping these 5 criteria of website reliability
- An e-book : summarizing the hole work done to learn this concept .
Useful links
website evaluation or measurment
After assimilating the procedure to follow in order to determine the reliability of a website , we provided our dear students some useful links to be used later , to evaluate and /or measure the reliability of a website