Secondary ICT - Web Literacy
This programme reveals the critical importance for teachers to provide guidance to their pupils when using the internet for research.
A group of Year 9 pupils at Wortley High School in Leeds are asked to look at three websites. The subject matters are Martin Luther King, the holocaust and Victorian robots.
None of the websites are what they seem. The first two are fronts for racists and holocaust deniers. The last is a good-natured spoof. None of the pupils spot any problems with the validity, reliability or authority of the sites and many say they would cut and paste information from the sites for use in homework or other projects.
ICT expert James Green leads a lesson that reveals the truth to the pupils, passing on valuable tips on website cross-checking and validity.
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Facebooksangitak on 15 July 2008
Although I'm in Adult educatin and most of your programmes are for primary and secondary ages. I find the teachers in c ...
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- Duration: 15:00 minutes
- Published: 06 September 2006
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- Next showing on TV: 7:00 12 February 2010
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teachers' TV15 July 2008 - 21:15Although I'm in Adult educatin and most of your programmes are for primary and secondary ages. I find the teachers in class very inspiring.
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ICT14 March 2008 - 21:44I teach the QCA ICT
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You can fool all of the people all of the time25 January 2008 - 09:34This area is really important and I work with teachers looking at the AUTHENTICITY, CREDIBILITY and PRESENTABILITY of websites and how we can deconstruct website to discover more about them. I also think that for much school work working from Google is a bad place to start given how easy it is to manipulate the metadata and hitrates on site to get them into the crucial 'top ten' on a Google search.
Paul Hopkins
www.mmiweb.org.uk
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ICT22 January 2008 - 08:23I found it really useful when working with GTP students on their subject days. It was certainly an eye opener for them! Will also use it with students of all ages.
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Great intro19 November 2007 - 21:18Thanks, it's a great intro to the unit for Y8s.
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Web Literacy15 November 2007 - 21:44Thoroughly enjoyed the 'Secondary ICT - Web Literacy' video. As a Student Teacher this is a good source for enabling pupils and teachers to be alert to the use of websites and how to track and check their validity for use.
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Library13 September 2007 - 09:19Excellent website. Key skills that should be applied to any information resource, not just the internet. Corroborate, validate and authenticate everything, cross-referencing and checking it all. I will be using this video.
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feedback29 July 2007 - 20:44a very useful demonstration of media analysis.
Matthew Bennett
Course Leader - iPro
Gloucestershire College
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ICT6 June 2007 - 09:17As a soon to be NQT, this was fascinating and I will we using this as a teaching tool.
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Web literacy - advocacy and objectivity3 April 2007 - 15:06This is an excellent video. It builds on the outstanding work of the US educator Allan November who pioneered this approach to information literacy and critical thinking some 6 or 7 years ago.
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Secondary ICT - Web Literacy25 March 2007 - 21:23Although working with adult learners, this video is an excellent tool as a launchpad for questioning the validity of websites and the analysis of search results.
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critical thinking8 January 2007 - 18:52assessing credibility of sources is a key area in the A level critical thinking course and this video is going to be extremely useful as a tool for that topic!
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