Teaching Students to Use the Internet As a Research Tool Review

In reading the article, “Teaching Students to Use the Internet As a Research Tool” by Elizabeth Caulfield Felt and Sarah C. Symans, I thought that what they had to say about using the Internet was very true. There is so much information on the Internet, and that information can be very useful and helpful for students, but it is becoming harder and harder to determine the validity of the information found. “That’s why they need help learning to evaluate the resources they find. If they are allowed to use Internet resources for their research, they need to learn what is and is not appropriate.” I liked the particular section about the different search engines that are available and how which one is used will provide different results for the searcher. There were several search engines listed that I’d never even heard of before, but think I might look into in the future. There is a great deal of information available, and I hope that teachers will continue to encourage their students and teaching them in obtaining the reliable sort of information.

As for the excel worksheet section, I think that this has been a good review for me. The reading about doing excel worksheets was pretty basic and easy to understand, I got eight out of nine on the quiz after the reading. It has been awhile since I’ve had to do much work with the excel program, so I think that this was good for me to look over the basics.