Information Dissemination (Week 2, Part 1)

I love the MAPping information activity because it is what I teach as a Media Specialist, and I am going to "steal" from this lesson. I constantly preach to junior high and high school students about the basement dwellers that sit in their mothers' homes eating potatoe chips designing websites that appear to be very credible but are really some crazy compilation of Joe Schmo ideas or some get rich quick schemes. "Be smarter than the material that holds your computer together" is my mantra. Information Literacy, to me, is the most important skill that students must learn because of the world we live in. If they do not know how to substantiate information that is constantly thrown at them, they will be lost on the information highway. My passions run oil well deep in this area.