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Evaluating Online Sources: Helping Students Determine Trustworthiness, Readability, and Usefulness

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Authors: Baildon, Mark; Baildon, Rindi

Source: Social Studies and the Young Learner, Number 4 / March/April 2012, pp. 11-14(4)

Publisher: National Council for the Social Studies

Increasingly, young people are interacting with information from a range of complex online sources (e.g., images, videos, websites, etc.) that inform them about content that is typically part of social studies. This makes helping students learn to become skilled careful and critical readers of all texts (from textbooks, trade books, magazines, and newspapers to websites, music, and video) an especially important component of social studies education.1

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 March 2012

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  • The goal of Social Studies and the Young Learner is to capture and enthuse elementary teachers across the country by providing relevant and useful information about the teaching of social studies to elementary students.The teaching techniques presented are designed to stimulate the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills vital to classroom success. SSYL is published quarterly: September/October; November/December; January/February; and March/April.
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