Any of us that have gone to the computer to 'ask google' knows that the way we look for and verify information has changed dramatically in the past 10 years.
This makes me wonder how disagreements like, "No way, Elizabeth Taylor's first film was when she was 9" were solved before the, "Well, I'll google it and THEN WE'LL FIND OUT WHO'S RIGHT!" closure to what could be an endless circle of inane arguing
But what about in the classroom?
During my weekly reading of a range of e-Learning blogs I cam across this great post from the Blogging about the Web 2.0 Connected Classroom blog that asks the the question I have used in the title of this post "What's wrong with Google telling me everything?"
The post talks about asking students to evaluate the information they are searching, to think critically and to 'Detect the crap'
The link to Howard Rheingold's Crap Detection post is great and identifies some excellent ideas and links to follow up
It is well worth a read and takes us that next step from how we can teach students to search effectively to how we can critically evaluate content in order to make sure we are accessing quality information.
What do you do in your classroom?
How good are you at evaluating the information you are searching or is this an area for improvement?
Until next time
K
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