It is very important to verify that the sites that you use in class and/or send your students to use are accurate, relevant, useful, and free from bias. I evaluated an interactive biology site and found it to be useful. I used a checklist guide provided in our workbook to do so -- and even though this site doesn't meet every single one of the check boxes, there are enough (in my opinion) good people and a good university backing up the site to make it useful.
This activity and the stringent requirements laid down by our checklist really made me think about what makes a website "good." For me, know who the author is/whether you can contact them is most important (followed by if there're lots of advertisements and how user friendly the site is). Evaluating sites is something that we teachers need to constantly do. How often are do we look for additional materials and activities for our students? All the time. How often do we look for validity? The answer here is, again, all the time. Using the guide provided in our book now tells us what to look for -- yay.
Also, I think it's important to share this information with our students. They need to know about reliability and validity of websites - what to look for and what should raise red flags.
There's a lot to think about when searching the web!
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