Transcript Asking the Right Questions

Promoting Digital Citizenship
Middle School
“Asking The Right Questions”
by Penny Hite
[email protected]
Asking the right questions
Instead of asking, “Where did you get this
information?”
One should ask, “Who owns this information?”
Sources
Encyclopedias
Textbooks
Media Center sources
Internet
http://thinkquest.org/pls/html/think.library
Encyclopedia
Students need to look at the article within the
encyclopedia for authors name. They will be at
the end of an article.
Textbooks/
Media Sources
Most students know how to find the authors of a
book or resource from their textbook or media
center.
Internet
This is the hardest for students to find, mainly
because they don’t know how to find good sites
for research-based information.
Here is a good activity to help students learn how
to evaluate web sites... can be done in small
groups where they can discuss their Internet use
and Web sites that they find useful for conducting
research.
Web site example
http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln.html
This is one web site found that gives information,
author, year made, shows recent updates,
contact information and is easy to navigate.