Thing 5: Getting Started with RSS

With technology putting so many resources at our fingertips, it is important that we teach students how to discern material's credibility and to instill a sense of ethical use of these resources. As we've learned, blogs allow any person to publish any position. This creates the need for students to have skills, such as cross-referencing and assessing bias, that will allow them to acknowledge the relevance and credibility of materials. Alan November addresses this need in his book. I found a post to his blog through the RSS feed that questions the ethics of a student's behavior. I like that the post presents the situation and allows readers to debate the behavior in the comments. As educators, we must consider to what extent a student is being a good steward of available resources and when it becomes cheating.