Creating Students’ Survival Guide to the Web | MindShift

Via Scoop.it – Interactive Teaching and Learning

“Author and educator Howard Rheingold discusses the importance of teaching students how to search the Web skillfully and how to find trustworthy Web sites. (See this YouTube video with advice to students and read “Crap Detection 101“). Rheingold’s online course Social Media Classroom points to many directions and provides a long reading list that includes books by intelligent authors who examine the potentially detrimental effects of the Internet on human cognition and relationships… Here are some possible guidelines or ground rules that come to my mind for using computers and staying focused in school…”
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