This activity requires students to assess the credibility of various Web sites of your choosing. Please be sure to check all areas of the Web sites and links that they provide to ensure that your students are surfing safely. It is best to select Web sites of major organizations and companies for this activity to demonstrate sites that are well-constructed, credible in content and authorship, and appropriate for student investigation. Please supervise your students carefully. A WEB SITE 1.
Students then share their answers.
Then, discuss why it may be easier to publish false or slanted information on the Internet than in newspapers or on television. The first four paragraphs of the article describe some misleading information on the Web. People have to be their own editors and take that upon themselves. Once you begin doing that, the habits become second nature. Students divide into pairs and select a computer as their workstation for this class and the next class.