Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Media Literacy and Research Skills

As a media specialist, I am often asked about teaching media literacy to students.  How can a student learn to discern a proper and legitimate source when researching a topic for a classroom project or "research paper"?  Students are now going to the Internet instead of the library...or going to the Internet through the library computers at school.  I want to share a link here to an online news magazine which introduces the new Google research feature for students.  Enjoy...

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/01/can-google-help-students-master-art-online-search