{"id":738,"date":"2009-12-09T08:09:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2009-12-09T08:09:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T13:09:24","slug":"critical-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Critical Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been facilitating a book talk on <a href=\"http:\/\/novemberlearning.com\/resources\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Web Literacy for Educators<\/em><\/a> by Alan November. Our discussions have been very interesting and I think we are all getting a lot out of it as we seek to apply those skills to our classrooms and daily searching habits.\u00a0 One of the topics that has come up is how to teach critical reading and analysis of web pages.\u00a0 We want to get beyond simply evaluating web pages for reliability, credibility and relevance and focus on analyzing the ideas and arguments presented in any reading.<\/p>\n<p>So I have begun putting together a workshop series I hope to run in the spring on advanced searching skills and critical reading.\u00a0 Somethings we will work on are how to identify fact, inference, opinion and bias. I have begun to gather a variety of web resources on Climate Change to use for some of the workshops.\u00a0 Since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climatic_Research_Unit_e-mail_hacking_incident\" target=\"_blank\">climategate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.cop15.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Copenhagen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/captrade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cap &amp; Trade<\/a> are in the news so much lately I thought there would be lots of material available with a wide range of opinion and information.\u00a0 I am a scientist by training and information junkie in general who loves to dissect an argument.\u00a0 I like to encourage people to play devil&#8217;s advocate and take on both sides of an argument.\u00a0 Back in the day when we taught debating in school, I did not mine taking on a view contrary to my personal belief. I always found I learned so much more immersing myself in an opposing view.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think we encourage that as much any more.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/livebinders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">livebinder<\/a> I am building.\u00a0 If you know of any climate related websites from all sides of the issue, I should include please let me know. Once I get the workshop outline and materials together I will add it to the binder, at that time I will make it copyable. I hope to get it done over the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:75px; height:78px; background-image:url(http:\/\/www.livebinders.com\/images\/binder_straightened.gif); border:0px none; margin-top:4px; background-repeat: no-repeat\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livebinders.com\/play\/play?id=4334\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3512\/3890727639_9ab909d7aa_s.jpg\" style=\"width:60px; height:60px; border:0px none; margin:14px 0px 6px 11px;\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/livebinders.com\/play\/play?id=4334\">Research Skills &#038; Climate Change<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been facilitating a book talk on Web Literacy for Educators by Alan November. Our discussions have been very interesting and I think we are all getting a lot out of it as we seek to apply those skills to our classrooms and daily searching habits.\u00a0 One of the topics that has come up is how to teach critical reading and analysis of web pages.\u00a0 We want to get beyond simply evaluating web pages for reliability, credibility and relevance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=738\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,27,52,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}