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Welcome to my Secondary English classroom website. A user nicknamed ‘jmnugent’ said the following in response to a question posted on []. I think this is very important as a teacher to provide to students. See if you also agree.

"Students don’t seem to know the very basics of how to intelligently search. They “shotgun” (throw words) into Google and then randomly pick results from (only) the first page of search results. They don’t put any thought into evaluating whether websites seemed “legit” or not. They don’t know how to follow “breadcrumbs” (backtracking how one website references another to get back to the original source article) ..etc. There is no “critical thinking” going on. To me.. that’s THE fundamental skill that the coming generation needs. If you can’t use critical thinking skills to fight your way through a jumble of e-information and be able to extract the high quality stuff that’s applicable to your goal…. then you’ll be lost. Being on the internet without information literacy skills is like being in a library and you can’t read.”

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Laurie Mekelburg 720-231-8551 lmekelburg@aol.commedia type="custom" key="4928021" align="right" [|Metro State College]