Lesson 3.03 Be an Internet Detective

• Introduction
• Learn
• Try It
• Task

Introduction

Do you always believe everything you hear? Is it possible for humans to be biased or to misinterpret something? All information sources need to be evaluated and this is even more important when using information from websites—because the Web has no system of quality control.

So you need to do some detective work when you are doing research, such as considering the motives of people publishing on the Internet and getting clues from URLs.

 

Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to... Critique Internet and digital information for validity, accuracy, bias, and current relevance Enduring Understandings Information on the Internet is not monitored and must be evaluated before being taken as accurate and true. The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Business Technology Applications standards: 10 and 3 This lesson incorporates the following Literacy Standards: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R10, W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, and W6