I think that this is one of the most important tools in my toolbox. I know too many adults that quote way too many things that they learned on the Internet, and for the most part I am dubious about the veracity of said quotes. It is easy to accept information based on the look of a website. In my own experience I quite often turn to blogs when trying to diagnose automotive troubles. Many of the bloggers that I run into claim to be professional mechanics and yet they often contradict each other. If most adults have a hard time with digital literacy, then our students are going to have the same problem. We need to stress to our students that they need to check their resources. Currently we do this by limiting their searches to websites that we trust, but we don't often share why we consider certain sites to be trustworthy.
The legal consequences facing our youth is a great concern to me. We have to make it clear, especially to our fifth graders, that they are responsible for any inappropriate behavior online.
There's no going back to analog at this point.
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