The ABC’s of Web Site Evaluation: Teaching Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet

Teaching Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet

Again this is another article that explains and gives tips on how to decipher whether information on a website is viable. I am not going to go over all of these because I have spoken of them in other articles I have read or several other people have touched on them. I will, however, touch on the parts that I found insightful for myself.

I know in reading articles with hyperlinks that I often find myself skipping from site to site reading here and there. This article states that sometimes you are linked to the middle (or some other part) of an article. When this happens you to go back and read the rest of the article because you can be misguided or misled due to not getting all of the facts that are in that particular link swaying you to a specific opinion.

Five W’s in research: who wrote it and are they an expert in the field? What does the author say is the purpose of the site? When was the site created, updated, and last worked on? Where does the information come from? Why is the information useful for my purpose?