I read an article by Clarence Fisher on “Verifying Information Online.”

http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/remote_access/2006/11/verifying_infor.html

This can be a very serious issue when dealing with students that are unfamiliar with search engines and verifying truthful information online. It always amazes me at how the wording of the search can play such a crucial role in finding the information that is needed. I was really amazed at the importance of phrasing our search just right to help narrow the search and hopefully obtain the desired results/information. As I was reading this article, I very quickly began to think back to the first time I ever searched for something on the Internet. I had no idea of key phrases and targeted word choices that I could use to narrow a search. I had never been introduced to the reliable, and false information that is available on the Internet–actually, I thought all the information in a search was true. Nevertheless, I had a teacher in high school that gave me an insight as to methods of using a search engine and ways to determine an unreliable source of information–much in the same format as the worksheet, in this post, is used to help students evaluate information that is found from a search. This would be a nice worksheet to use for evaluation of information that is found on the net and to determine if it is valuable information.