The purposes of this handbook are to provide an overview of the project, to offer support materials and resources, and to provide information about participating schools and advisory committee. We hope that the content will be useful to you.
Students write a summary of their evaluated Web sites.
Classes then select a cluster from the evaluated and summarized Web sites for publication on the on the World Wide Web, thus building a student-generated library of evaluated Internet resources. The Internet Detectives home page is an authentic real-world product and can be accessed from the MMSD Web site. Students everywhere can benefit from the library of evaluated and curricular-related Internet resources. At the same time that expectations for information literacy are being identified, questions are being raised by administrators, school board members, teachers, parents, and politicians about the presence of unevaluated and unorganized Internet resources in schools. Internet Detectives acknowledges both sides of the filtering versus First Amendment issue and responds by offering a positive alternative to filtering.