Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Website Evaluation Lesson Plan

This afternoon I'm meeting with the computer teacher to brainstorm and co-plan a two day website evaluation lesson for her class.  My supervising teacher has presented this lesson in the past, so I plan on using her lesson plan notes, a lesson plan from Kathy Schrock's website (http://kathyschrock.net/eval/index.htm), and a webquest that I created (https://sites.google.com/site/digitalliteracywebsiteeval/) to design a two-day lesson.  In the past my supervising teacher has spent the first day of the lesson brainstorming ideas with students (why do we need to evaluate websites, what qualities should proper websites have, etc.).  The second day she's introduced them to the Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie website (a hoax website) and had them make their own aluminum foil beanies to wear around school.  I'd definitely like to continue that tradition (sounds very fun), but there are some other hoax websites I'd like to work in as well. 

Here's a brief summary of what I'm planning to propose:
  • Start class on day one by brainstorming ideas for why we need to evaluate websites and what qualities we should look for.
  • Go over a handout with information on what to look for/how to do searches.  Something like Kathy Schrock's 5 W's page, or website evaluation worksheet.
  • Next day, have students work through the webquest on their own during the first half of class.  Webquest will be shortened and adapted to include more of the hoax websites, or websites that seem like hoaxes but aren't (Mike the Headless Chicken). 
  • Finish up by having a class discussion about the webquest and creating aluminum foil beanies together.

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