"Most of the time, it’s nothing more than an innocent effort to save face. Our brain will tell us we’re smarter and better looking than everyone else, and that any fault brought to our attention should probably be blamed on someone else..."
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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Beth Dichter's insight:
There are many resources to help students learn to evaluate websites. This one uses the RADCAB as "A mnemonic acronym for information evaluation." Not only is the poster (see image above) available in an elementary version (as shown) and a middle/high school version (there is a cost). You will also find a page for each letter in RADCAB that provides additional questions and strategies as you go through the RADCAB process which is: * Relevancy * Appropriateness * Detail * Currency * Authority * Bias 
Gary Faust's curator insight,
July 27, 2013 12:19 PM
These guidelines are particularly helpful in evaluating "science" sources. So much that isa presented as "science" is biased and may be more appropriately categorized as "political science". 
Alejandro Ibañez Bonilla's curator insight,
January 9, 2014 9:32 AM
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Welcome to a this seventh in a series that is must read for any educator wanting to facilitate web page evaluation by students. It includes a new step in web evaluation information along with a p...
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post is the last of a series that looks at website evaluation. Beginning with the letter A the posts were titled: * A is for Author * B is for Bias * C is for Currency * D is for Domain Anatomy * E is for Effectiveness of Purpose * F is for Facts and Contents * G is for Good Link It is not easy for students (or teachers) to learn how to evaluate websites. For each letter you may download a flyer that provides resources for students to use as they learn the process. Michael Gorman states "I believe that web evaluation must be a simple process that can also be applied to memory. Thus the reason for my (A-G) approach. This series is devoted to teaching these skills..." If you will be working with students this year with website evaluation you may find these handouts valuable. It appears to me that they are written at a middle school level.
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Do you know that your brain may sabotage you? This posts looks at sixteen ways the brain may set "traps" that lead us astray. Additional resources are also listed in many of these "traps."
* Equating Knowing With Learning. It takes time for us to really "learn" something, which means we need to review this new information so we can move it from short-term storage to long-term storage.
* Being Biased Towards Ourselves. If you bomb a test or assignment do you tend to base blame on others? This is one example of being biased toward ourselves. We blame the book, teacher...the list could go on.
* Making Us Think We Can Multi-task. What happens when you multi-task? Your brain is quickly switching back and forth between multiple task your brain becomes overloaded and cannot perform at full capacity.
To read more about these three items, and learn about the other 13 ways your brain may try to trick you click through to the post.