Week 5 - Hoax or Real (evaluating authenticity of websites)

I was surprised by how legitimate some of the websites looked! It's scary that information like the Martin Luther King Jr. website exist. A website like that could cause a lot of misinformation and confusion for students. That particular website is very racist and, surprisingly, it's like the third hit when you google MLK. It's disturbing, but that is why it is important for us teachers to know there is lots of garbage out there intermingled with good legitimate information. We have to be very careful when sending our students off to do their own research. We actually have to do the research first and then give them "safe" websites to explore for their research.