I was flattered to be asked to share ideas relating to evaluation in the 2.0 landscape with IMSA’s 21st Century Information Fluency Project for their very cool Full Circle Resource Kit. The kit offers some very handy resources to use with learners.
Frances Jacobson Harris shares a podcast on issues relating to teaching credibility assessment: http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/features/v1n4/harris_coverpage.html
New Jersey high school library, Janice Cooper presents an essay on the Personal Side of Searching.
My own podcast on 2.0 evaluation issues is located here: http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/features/v1n5/valenza_coverpage.html
The project team made my stuff on blog assessment look much better : http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/assessment/v1n5/valenza1.5_blogeval.html and created a rubric and lesson ideas around the criteria I’ve been thinking about: http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/assessment/v1n5/blog_evaluation_assessment_v1n5.html
As you look at the rubric and the lesson, consider Francey’s points relating to how students learn to (or failed to learn to) internalize once they don’t have neat boxes and scaffolds in front of them and how evaluation issues shift in the face of varying information needs. I absolutely agree with Francey about avoiding the use of spoof sites in instruction with older students. Authentic information is far fuzzier and far more important to play with.
