Volume 1, Edition 38 – Teaching Students to Evaluate Websites

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for teaching students to evaluate websites for trustworthiness of academic information.

The Internet is now a permanent part of education, with students being increasingly asked to find information from websites. In an article for The Reading Teacher, several university professors discuss a framework for teaching elementary students how to evaluate which websites are good and trustworthy sources of information versus those that are more questionable sources.

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