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=Week 3 =

Evaluating WebSites
 This week you will pick a couple of websites to evaluate. Think about your upcoming units that you are teaching and outcomes. You might want to evaluate websites that you can use with your students. Teaching your students to be critical and reflective thinkers is crucial in the 21st century. Many websites are based on personal opinion and not on factual information. Before you begin this weeks assignment, please read the following article by Alan November "Teaching Zach to Think".

Alan November, is a well-known leader in the area of instructional technology and promotes the effective use of information and classroom technologies that support and enhance learning for children. His website, November Learning, is a wonderful resource for learning more about [|information literacy] and the future of communication technologies in our classrooms.

After reading the article "Teaching Zach to Think" and viewing the following website about the [|Pacific Tree Octopus], why do you think it is important to teach our students how to read a URL and be critical thinkers of what they are reading. **Please post your response to your blog.** You might also find [|How to Read a URL] informative.

Please complete the following assignments before meeting for our fourth week.
 * Website Evaluation**
 * - Read the "[|ABCs of WebSite Evaluation]" article
 * - Review the [|Kathy Schrock Critical Evaluation Survey] instrument designed for student use.
 * - Evaluate **one** potentially instructional website using the [|21st Century Information Fluency Project Portal tool] & describe possible teaching opportunities for the site selected. **Use the discussion tab at the top of this page to share your URL and describe how you would use it instructionally. __(Please post your response by Monday Feb.23rd by 6:00pm)__**
 * -For the next class, create a list of 5 valid websites that you would use in classroom instruction pertaining to one subject area.