Session+2

Participants will learn strategies to help students determine the quality of online sources, read for information, and cite online documents. The assignment will be to read and respond to the following articles from // Educational Leadership //, March 2009, Volume 66, No. 6 [|The Best of Both Literacies], [|Stepping Beyond Wikipedia], [|Plagiarism in the Internet Age]
 * Session 2: On-line Reading Comprehension (January 30, 2012) **


 * How has the easy availability of online information changed how your students do research? For example, do you see more plagiarism today than in the past? Do you find that students are able to access more useful information? Or they just finding more information, instead of better information?


 * What is your attitude toward Wikipedia? Do you allow students to cite it in their research? What guidance should teachers offer to ensure that students are getting accurate information from Wikipedia and other sites?