Open AccessEvaluating Information on the Internet
Author(s) -
Merran Ware
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
school libraries worldwide
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2816-3788
pISSN - 1023-9391
DOI - 10.29173/slw7091
Subject(s) - misinformation , the internet , ranking (information retrieval) , computer science , criticism , internet research , internet privacy , information source (mathematics) , psychology , data science , world wide web , information retrieval , political science , computer security , statistics , mathematics , law
The Internet as a source of information is vast, disorganized, and continually in a state of flux between updating and stagnating. Students must develop strategies to cope with these problems. The Internet itself provides many opportunities for students to be taught the skills of evaluation: appraisal, criticism, discrimination, comparison, ranking, and verification. It can provide the modeling of strategies for using search engines, how to distinguish between good and poor sites, and detecting misinformation.