In Nine Needs for Web Literacy, Janice Friesen (2007) summarizes what new literacy skills teachers and students need to develop to turn "web-based". Obvious as a few of her tips may look at first sight (such as "careful reading of emails" ), I do believe they are all worth acquiring, and then teaching! Personally, I find the last item on her list ("developing a healthy sense of scepticism when browsing the Web") the one I have needed to work on the most so as to survive in this endless sea of information and opinion.
So what's your experience? Have you ever mistakenly taken a spoof site as a valid source? Or rushly clicked on an attractive link that allowed some hacker to infect your computer and left you "resourceless" for over a week?
Click on "comments" below and let us know all about it!
Gladys
2 comments:
I have never been left without my PC because of entering a website. fortunatelly, I have never had such a serious problem. Anyway, I do agree that we should be a bit distrustful of what we find on the net. We should learn to check the validity of the sources and guide our students to do the same.
I have gone through that painful experience many a time. "Painful" especially because of the money to be spent on having your pc debugged.... My thirst is not usually quenched by reading one single article about a specific topic so scepticism is always welcome, even more so when it comes to the web.
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