Separating Wheat from Chaff: Why Dirty Pictures Are Not the Real Dilemma in Using the Internet To Teach Social Studies.

Risinger, C. Frederick

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Publication Date: 1998

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Separating Wheat from Chaff: Why Dirty Pictures Are Not the Real Dilemma in Using the Internet To Teach Social Studies.

Risinger, C. Frederick

Social Education, v62 n3 p148-50 Mar 1998

Contends that the real problem in using the Internet is information evaluation and validation. Identifies three types of websites that cause social studies teachers concern: Hate Sites, Dumb Sites, and Conspiratory Sites. Provides guidelines that students can use when evaluating these types of online information. (CMK)

Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Information Literacy, Information Sources, Internet, Knowledge Level, Secondary Education, Skill Development, Social Studies, Student Responsibility, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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