Students in higher education often use Internet resources in their research without facing the restrictions so often placed on students in the K-12 environment. For this reason, it is critical that they understand how to evaluate web resources for quality to ensure the credibility and accuracy of their work. In this lesson, students will identify, evaluate and select high quality web resources on a topic of their choosing, then develop and publish a web-based research guide that will be useful to researchers who share their interest. The lesson is intended for adult learners, and assesses several competencies outlined in the Association of College & Research Libraries’ Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.
For my project based learning assignment, I will be using Blogger as the Web 2.0 tool. I chose Blogger because it offers a variety of features that allow students to create a web site showcasing the high quality web resources they’ve selected on their topics. The customization features offer an opportunity for creativity, but provide an easy-to-use structure for organizing content. Students can use their blogs to publish their research guides, to explain the criteria used to evaluate and select the resources, and to reflect on their learning throughout the project.
The 21st century skills that will be assessed in the lesson are: critical thinking, problem solving, self-direction, information literacy, and communication. The instructional strategies will be setting objectives and providing feedback, summarizing and notetaking, identifying similarities and differences, and generating and testing hypotheses.
This lesson will reinforce information literacy skills that are necessary for educational research in higher education, as well as provide a foundation of information seeking and critical analysis behaviors that support lifelong learning.
RUBRIC: Evaluating Web Resources
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