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Main Author: Hogenboom, Karen
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2005
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ792761
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contents Going Beyond. gov: Using Government Information to Teach Evaluation of Sources Hogenboom, Karen Information Sources Information Literacy Internet Librarians Library Instruction Critical Thinking Thinking Skills Many instruction librarians teach students that the URL extension .gov is one sign of a reliable, authoritative Internet source. This is true in many cases, but there are other very important reasons that government information deserves a larger place in information literacy sessions. It offers a clear example of several concepts students must understand in order to judge the reliability of the information they find. Information from different administrations and different branches of government can be potent examples of how point of view, bias, and audience affect the content, structure, and tone of information sources. Furthermore, government sources can be used to evaluate secondary sources that cite them or analyze them. (Contains 25 notes.)
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spellingShingle Going Beyond. gov: Using Government Information to Teach Evaluation of Sources
Hogenboom, Karen
Information Sources
Information Literacy
Internet
Librarians
Library Instruction
Critical Thinking
Thinking Skills
Going Beyond. gov: Using Government Information to Teach Evaluation of Sources Hogenboom, Karen Information Sources Information Literacy Internet Librarians Library Instruction Critical Thinking Thinking Skills Many instruction librarians teach students that the URL extension .gov is one sign of a reliable, authoritative Internet source. This is true in many cases, but there are other very important reasons that government information deserves a larger place in information literacy sessions. It offers a clear example of several concepts students must understand in order to judge the reliability of the information they find. Information from different administrations and different branches of government can be potent examples of how point of view, bias, and audience affect the content, structure, and tone of information sources. Furthermore, government sources can be used to evaluate secondary sources that cite them or analyze them. (Contains 25 notes.)
title Going Beyond. gov: Using Government Information to Teach Evaluation of Sources
topic Information Sources
Information Literacy
Internet
Librarians
Library Instruction
Critical Thinking
Thinking Skills
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ792761