All You Need to Teach - Info Literacy 10+

Lesson Bank
Web Wisdom
Learning for Life
V Information obtained from the internet needs to
be checked for accuracy and currency.
V I should not rely solely on the internet to provide
me with information.
V I need to take responsibility for my own safety
when I am online.
Focus Questions
How can you get information and images from the
internet?
How can you add information and images to the
internet?
How can you keep yourself safe when you are
online?
Other Useful Resources
V websites, such as:
–Gaggle.net
www.gaggle.net
–Edublogs
www.edublogs.org
–PBWikis
www.pbwikis.com
–Timeline
www.classtools.net
–Intel Ranking
http://educate.intel.com/en/thinkingtools/
Visualranking/
–Pencil Drawing
www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil
–Wordle
www.wordle.net
Learning Activities
An international network
Investigate what students already know about the
internet and how it works.
Who owns the internet?
Who can post information and images online?
Does anyone check the information or images to
make sure they are correct?
Remind them of the ease with which information
can be added to the internet. Discuss the following
information about safety online.
• Anyone can post anything easily.
• The content of the internet is not monitored in the
way that an editor/publisher monitors the content
of a book.
• We need to check what we find to ensure it is
accurate.
• We need to keep ourselves safe because things
may not be as they seem.
From the web
Ask students to locate information online. The following
questions might be used as research prompts.
Which city holds an annual spring flower festival
known as Floriade?
Which state’s coat of arms features a red deer and
a brolga?
Why do people in rural and remote Australia
appreciate the work of Reverend John Flynn?
Have students keep a record of the terms they
use for each search so they can be compared and
discussed. Remind them to limit their searches,
if using Google, to ‘pages from Australia’.
Demonstrate how to select the most likely link by
reading the summary and checking the features of
the URL. Explain how to use the menu of a website
to navigate to the required page, including the
internal search option if there is one. Show them
how to find specific words on a page using the
‘Find’ feature of the internet browser.
Remind students of the need to check information
for accuracy and currency. Brainstorm a list of
features they should look for in a website. Remind
them to check that:
• the title of the page relates closely to the query
• there is a name on it (of a person or organisation),
which shows that someone is taking responsibility
for the information
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