Hello everybody! We have been working on practical work N° 1 at this subject, in which we had to deal with some websites and some
guidelines for analysing them. First, we divide into groups, and then explored
a list of webpages; some of them were really great and some of
them not so much. Later, we "dissected" only two of them following
guidelines like responsibility, authority, currency, appropriateness and
relevance, etc. and last we made some sample activities and introduced them
into a hypothetical lesson.
My conclusion of
all this work we made is how important it is to teach our future students how
to realize if a site is reliable and provides correct information when doing a research.
In my opinion, it is a very necessary skill, especially nowadays when the
information is no longer found in books and encyclopedias but online in
webpages and wikis because they are faster and easier to access. It is highly important to show that “copying and pasting” information is not
beneficial. The best that we can do is to read using our critical thinking and
our reasoning, selecting what works for the purpose of the research at that
moment. Not all the things that we can find in the web are good and we need to
learn how to realize that.
