www.MythBusters.com is a website about unexplained myths,
legends and unexplained phenomena such as UFOs, the Loch Ness
Monster, telekinesis and the paranormal. You are going to use the
internet to research and produce a suitably mysterious topic of
your own choice and then use the information to produce a podcast
and hand out - which can be downloaded by visitors to the Myth
Busters website.
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Understand that information on the internet could be
inaccurate, biased, or untrustworthy Understand the methods used to
judge whether a website is reliable For some students: Be able to
check and comment on the accuracy of the information found on the
internet
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Watch the video clip. What do you think of the clip? Where is
it from? Do you think this is a reliable source of
information?
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The video was produced by the BBC It looks genuine but was
actually an April Fools joke from 2008 The programme was also
reported by the Daily Telegraph!
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Are the Daily Telegraph and the BBC website usually reliable
sources of information? How do you know? What does this tell
us?
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How can we tell whether a website is likely to give us
information that we can trust? This partly depends on what the
website is for The domain name suffix at the end of the web address
can give us a clue as to the likely purpose of the website Turn to
Activity 1 and see if you can work out what the different domain
names actually mean
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Which domain names might mean that a website is more likely to
be reliable? Which domain names might mean that a website is less
likely to be reliable? Why?
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As well as looking at the domain name, ask: How recently was
the site updated? Does the site link to/from other reliable or
unreliable websites? Do you know anything about the person who
wrote the information? What type of language is used? (maybe..
apparently could have may do)
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Complete Activity 2 the Robin Hood web search task The idea of
this activity is to be able to compare and evaluate sources of
information (in this case, websites)
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Is it always possible to know for sure whether information we
find on a website is accurate? Are there ways we can try and find
out? Why is it important to use accurate information?
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Complete Homework 1 You will need to choose something like a
football match, gig, album or film You will need to find two
different websites that review or describe it You will need to look
at the differences between the information you find on both
sites
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Times Online, 25/8/09 What do these examples of fake Wikipedia
stories tell us?