Authority - Currency - Content/Purpose - Audience - Structure/Workability
These five criteria are very useful and would provide good guidance in working with students to analyze information from a website. At the same time it reinforces my belief that teaching content in the classroom remains important. With a basic grasp of content, taught by the teacher using vetted sources, students have a built in filter for the information they encounter online. With a basic understanding of geology and human's efforts to drill into the earth, it would be pretty easy to recognize that a 14.4 km deep hole drilled to find oil automatically disqualifies the site as a legitimate source of information.
The exercise that Chris mentioned of creating a believable but false site is a great one. It would put students in the position of presenting information that either seems plausible OR presenting information in a way that seems plausible.
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