This course, Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom, has been a very beneficial and helpful course. The most striking revelation that I had about the teaching of new literacy skills is the importance of verifying sources. I believe that many of my students do not verify the correctness and validity of their sources. Most assume that all information on the website is correct. I am also one who probably did not spend as much time and effort as I should in verifying website for validity. This is definitely something that I will review with my students in the classroom.
I hope to utilize many of the techniques that were outlined in this course. This course has been very helpful for me. I teach computer applications so I feel that many of these techniques will be beneficial to my students and help them with their other courses as well as future projects. I am excited to incorporate many of the ideas / techniques into my lesson plans.
One professional development goal that I would like to pursue is to become more Internet savvy. I believe that there is so much to explore on the Internet. Also, I do not feel that I am where I need to be professionally when it comes to utilizing, verifying and synthesizing Internet sources. I hope to explore the net and review the techniques that I learned from this course. By doing so, I believe that I will be more comfortable with my information literacy skills. This not only will benefit me, but will also benefit my students.
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