Internet Reading Strategies HW due 10/27/09

Wow what a terrific article explaining how to teach on-line reading strategies. I am going to teach my students the lesson as outlined in Julie Coiro's article. My juniors are researching an American Culture Project and I bet they are as lost as I have been in finding and synthesizing information. I probably have better knowledge regarding credible sources than they do, but we are all subject to hoaxes. The internet is feeling more and more like an ocean filled with drops of water (information, much of it bogus)which one must swim through in order to make sense of what one is looking for. The graphic organizers in figure 1 and figure 2 are like boats in this vast ocean of information. I can't wait to get in that boat with my students, using this article as oars, in order to teach and learn at the same time.
I am so glad I am taking this class!! (and I am not grade grubbing!)