1. Website Reliability
Standard 1 Objective 3c: Evaluate the results of web searches and the reliability of information found on the Internet.

2. Journal Entry 3 Why do you need to evaluate websites?
Write your answers on the slides.
Why do you need to evaluate websites?
What tools do you use to know if the information on a website is accurate?
List and rank them.

3. Defining Credibility
An Introduction

4. It Can Be How You Look At Things...
Same search, different answers:
Site #1: Average of 382,500 km
Site #2: Average of 384,403 km
Site #3: Between 225,622 and 252,088 miles
Site #4: Average of 238,857 miles
Practice checking and assessing for credibility. Bring up the Google Search page on a computer with a projector along with the Google Presentation. Either demonstrate the search as a whole class or if students have their own computers ask them to find the distance between Earth and the moon.
Instruct the students to use Google search to check and assess credibility: 
(1) Get multiple answers, 
(2) Always check your answers.
Put the obvious search terms in the search box [distance to moon]. Tell students to get answers by searching and reviewing multiple sites. If students are keeping track of their results in a Google shared doc, have them anticipate why they are getting different answers. Discuss the kinds of results and question the authority and validity of these sites.
What are some possible reasons for the differences? 
different recording techniques (rounding, averaging)
different symbols and measuring techniques (center to center or surface to surface)
different resolutions of measurement (cm vs. mile scales)
Why do you think these are different?
Write your answers here:

5. Tips: What To Think About
Read.
Tips: What To Think About
How much do I care for a precise, quality answer?
   How much should I save up to buy that new phone?
    What do I need to know for my report on the Civil War?
    I want some recipe for homemade kettle corn? 1 2
What do I know about the author or organization 
    providing this information? 3
Why was this page created?
    To inform me
    To persuade me
    To sell me something
    To undermine someone or something
    For another reason

6. Credibility You have searched and now have results.
Read.
Credibility
You have searched and now have results.
But how do you know something is true?
Are all results reliable??
Is everything on the WWW true?? 
NOTE: Anyone (professionals, students, idiots, terrorists, etc.) can post something online for the world to read, which makes it hard when you are trying to find good credible information.
Using the 5W+H rule will help you determine what’s good and what’s not!
Ask students to share with a partner and brainstorm ideas: 
"How do you decide if something is true?" 
Have a few of the students share what they discussed. 
Some points you may add to the discussion are:
The concepts of trust and credibility are socially contextualized - what is credible to you is not to another person or social group.
What does your social group recognized as credible? Name recognition plays a major role in this determination.

7. Use the 5W+H Rule
Read.
Who wrote the page, are they an expert or just some random person?
What is the purpose of the website?
When was the site created or updated?
Where does the information come from?
Why is this information valuable? +
How can you tell what’s what?

8. Think: Use your common sense!
Read.
Tips: What To Do
Know who wrote and published the page    
    Find "About" page  Check web address
    Visit site's homepage Google the author/organization
    Use link:
    Ask: Is this the right person to give me good information?
Does this author have any bias? 1
Check your facts
    Check multiple sources     Identify the type of page
    Look for bibliography Check the date
    Confirm in snopes.com    Spot known errors   
Think: Use your common sense! 
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9. Give It a Try!
 Use the tips you have learned and decide which of the websites are true and which are hoaxes:
Try these sites!
Type your answers here.
Hoax or not?
Hoax or not?
Hoax or not?
SETI--True
Tree octopus--Hoax
DHMO--Hoax
Golfcross--True 
Hoax or not?

10. Activity – Checking the Reliability of Websites
Do this activity. Submit.
Activity – Checking the Reliability of Websites
Open the Website Credibility Worksheet and complete it now.
Submit it to Dropbox when you have finished it.
How to submit the Website Credibility Worksheet to Dropbox
Save it to your computer as we do in class
Example: if your name is Alice Student, and you are in period 8, your file will be saved as 8StudentAliceWebsiteCredibility
Go to
Password is “student”
Add your file to the Dropbox

11. Uncover the Truth
Practice Differentiating Information from Disinformation

12. Read.
Credibility
Credibility is often harder to determine than simply identifying a hoax site.
Did NASA fake the moon landing?
Try this search:
Ask students to use search and validation strategies to prove the answer.
Use these keywords: [lunar landing hoax].

13. Testing the Lunar Landing Hoax
Try this site! You will write about it on the next slide.
Follow the first link:
Click on the first search result:
Use the questions about how to judge the credibility of a web page as criteria for proof from [Slide #5-#6]. 
Check it out. Do you find this site credible? 

14. Was it a Hoax? Write your answer and defense, below.
Do this activity.
Was it a Hoax? Write your answer and defense, below.

15. Do this activity.
SUMMARIZE
Write a paragraph, below, to summarize what you have learned about evaluating website content.

16. How to turn this in for a grade
Save this to your computer as we do in class
Example: if your name is Alice Student, and you are in period 8, your file will be saved as 8StudentAliceUnit1Day7
Go to
Password is “student”
Add your file to the Dropbox
Congratulations! You are done!