0718 Assignment - Response to Standards

Oregon Educational Technology Standards

Research and Information Fluency

Students select and apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, validate, and use information.  Students:

1. Plan strategies to guide inquiry.
2. Locate, organize and use information ethically from a variety of sources and media.
3. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
4. Analyze, evaluate, and summarize information or data and report results.

This standard has been one that has something I have been thinking about for awhile.  One of the issues or concerns I have been having is when I assign research papers or projects for my students.  It is a constant battle in getting students to realize and evaluate the information sources they are using in their research projects.  An example is the use of wikipedia.  I believe there is some information that can be useful for some research but the fact that anyone can go in and edit any wikipedia page is of concern.  I have been trying to steer students into more peer reviewed materials or sites designed for education and are know to be more reputable.  I appreciate this standard in that I feel it makes us as educators to stop and think about how we should guide students in practices that are appropriate when conducting research.