Daring Ed Tech

Do your students know how to research, to evaluate websites? The Common Core states that college and career ready students should be able to (quoted from the standards):
* Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

* Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

* Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

In this post Caitlin Tucker provides a link to a Google form to use with students to demonstrate "their ability to analyze the credibility of resources."

She also includes a "silent screencast" that shows the process of making a copy of the form for you to use.

I have a friend who teaches English courses at the college level and this is her biggest complaint. She says that the students simply do not know how to research. They don't know how to use databases or how to evaluate websites which seems so crazy to me. I'm not sure why these skills aren't being taught or integrated into every content area. Perhaps too much time is being spent preparing students for standardized testing.

What to expect when librarians are being cut everywhere or stretched so thin to covel 4 schools in one week?