I want something that is actually digital, something that deals with the particular affordances of the web, and gives students a knowledge of how to use specific web tools and techniques.
I'd appreciate this fo sho. I had some pretty AMAZING teachers growing up, and they taught me to know that I can almost never take things for a face value and must check the sources. They didn't really teach me how to do that in an efficient way online though.
On the other hand, nearly 40% of students argued that the post provided strong evidence because it presented pictorial evidence about conditions near the power plant. A quarter of the students argued that the post did not provide strong evidence, but only because it showed flowers and not other plants or animals that may have been affected by the nuclear radiation.
Snopes and other sites like it are going to be really important moving forward. What are acadamia, the government, news sources, nonprofits and the people doing to ensure that this valuable source remains authentic and ubiquitous?
If you want to know the real way to evaluate the site, claims Pondiscio, it’s not by doing something, it’s by knowing something: It’s possible to spend countless hours looking at the various RADCAB categories without getting the joke. Unless, of course, you actually know something about cephalopods — such as the fact that they are marine invertebrates that would have a tough time surviving or even maintaining their shape out of the water — then the hoax is transparent.
If students have to know a variety of random information to determine the validity of a site, they're never going to be able to determine the validity of every site that comes their way. Our general knowledge is limited. I don't know that much about K-Pop, so I can't tell whether a website is a fan site or the actual website of the group or if there are even websites for different groups. Maybe I could figure it out eventually, but it wouldn't be off of the general knowledge I have gained in life.
void-of-conflict-of-interest relationship
How do you create this type of "void of conflict of interest" relationship? What does that mean? Is it possible to be completely devoid of conflicts of interest when working with industry or any institution for that matter?
School leaders have become so central to sales that a few private firms will now, for fees that can climb into the tens of thousands of dollars, arrange meetings for vendors with school officials, on some occasions paying superintendents as consultants. Tech-backed organizations have also flown superintendents to conferences at resorts. And school leaders have evangelized company products to other districts.
This sounds suspiciously similar to what Robert Maxwell did to turn journals into a club and articles into a commodity. He gave the board members incredible perks.