Week 4 and 5

No, I do not believe that all information from the media or any other outlet are completely accurate or worthy of attention.  A lot of it can be the product of the producer's opinion or perspective but not necessarily grounded in truth/facts. As with choosing food service vendors, you must always get your information (or product) from reputable sources. All of them are known to be biased in some way, based on how they report or how they present a topic and the type of light they want to shed on it. I typically trust the web for research more than any other source due to the fact that I have millions of sites from which to choose as a comparison.

Information literacy is the need for information and the ability to find the information that is needed (ie being resourceful).With my students, I will share with them that it is best to go with a site that is not a forum of opinions but preferably one that is an .edu, .org or .gov for fact comparisons.I think it is important to let them know that they cannot take one thing they find for gospel but to utilize all that is available to insure accurate information.