Free Expertise for Lecturers: All About Explorers

All About Explorers developed by Gerald Aungst and Lauren Zucker, was designed to assist college students develop their abilities in figuring out legitimate info discovered on the Web. On All About Explorers college students discover faux biographies of well-known explorers. The biographies do comprise info that’s partly primarily based on information, the content material is deliberately written to be inaccurate.

Purposes for Schooling
Lecturers who need to use All About Explorers to show their college students to be discerning shoppers of data ought to check out the All About Explorers classes and treasure hunts. The treasure hunts are quick actions by which college students examine info from a number of sources on the internet.

The lesson plans are a collection of 5 actions designed to introduce college students to internet analysis methods discerning the standard of data discovered on-line. My solely criticism of the lesson plans is that lesson 4 perpetuates the parable that .org domains are usually non-profit organizations and that they one way or the other have extra credibility than .com or .internet domains. (A fast look at martinlutherking.org or dhmo.org will dispel these myths).