Friday, May 8, 2009

Valid Online Information

I've been thinking about how we need to teach students to evaluate online information lately. There's so much good content out there along with the inaccurate.

World Digital Libray is an example of very interesting content for researching primary sources from around the world. The project is carefully thought out and user friendly.

Here's a news article from ars technica about a Wikipedia Hoax that points how important it is for journalists to verify sources. The same could be said about academic work at any level.