Link Like You Mean It! Selecting Web Sites to Support Intentional Learning Outcomes

This article was great for giving examples and types of websites they suggest. I will go through and give you a smaller description of each website. This should help when doing the final project (webquest).

Huge Links- used for exercising literacy skills and work on long-term research skills for the higher learning, more focused students.

Info-rich sites- these sites are more specific and direct the student to pertinent information (target search).

“Emotive” sites- these go for the emotions so student may relate. They connect the students to real life.

“Typical” sites for (conceptual understanding)- these types of sites a student has to read and draw their own thoughts instead of just memorizing.

Perturbing sites (critical thinking)- these are sites that contain stereo types, bias, add, and those sort of things. These sites are more of a teacher structured site but help the students to use critical thinking. The students learn to recognize when bias or stereo types are being used and call it out (know that information is not up to par).

These descriptions should help both students and teachers chose what is good and not good in what they research and use.