GEN. VALIDATING INTERNET SOURCES (fwd)

["Mary E. King" <meking@CALVIN.STEMNET.NF.CA>]

MARY E. KING
GRADUATE STUDENT
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
HOME PHONE: (709) 563-1562

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"A book tight shut is just a block of paper."  -- Chinese proverb

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:20:56 -0330 (NST)
From: Mary E. King <meking@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca>
To: LM-NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: GEN. VALIDATING INTERNET SOURCES


Dear LM-NET Subscribers:

        Have you ever given, or can you even envision giving, students a
research assignment to do using the Internet as a source (Eg. WWW or
listservs), only to find that some of them retrieved inaccurate
information, or even received deliberately biased information from some
group?  What, as an educator, did/would you do?

        My colleagues and I, a class of seven graduate students at
Memorial University (St. John's, NF, Canada) are addressing this problem,
and we would very much like to hear from you, either to report from your
owm direct teaching experience in this matter, or to receive from you
references to published works which address validity and the Internet.
As you know, published articles and books are fact-checked and edited,
and even then mistakes creep in.   How do we establish the information we
receive on the New is accurate, and how do we explain this concept to
10 or 14 or 18 year olds?

        Please send your responses to:  edu6662@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca
and let us know if you would like a report of our findings.  A sincere
thanks to everyone who has responded to date; we know who you are!  This
is a super listserv!




MARY E. KING
GRADUATE STUDENT
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
HOME PHONE: (709) 563-1562

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"A book tight shut is just a block of paper."  -- Chinese proverb

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