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Matt Blackband
- ICT Research
- ICT Integrator. 9 years as classroom teacher. Master of Education in ICT.
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http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p9b.htm
Green Left Weekly is an 'independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality’.
It is a non profit organisation hence .org
It is an Australian site hence the .au on the end of the URL.
Is not a personal page – there are no personal names following the title.
It was last updated on the 14th March 2007.
The articles are authorised by K. Miller, 23 Abercrombie St, Chippendale, NSW. Site by Kiwa Systems
The site also offers links which are on the same topic.
The page is put in on the web with the aim of ‘linking like-minded activists, socialists, environmentalists, feminists, anti-racists.’
The article was produced to inform and to persuade. The information is written to persuade the audience on an idea the site feels strongly about. The information is biased.
http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/nsw/content/2006/s1567784.htm
The site is from Stateline which is a program that focuses on local and political issues which affect us. It is part of the ABC – Australian Boradcasting Commission – very reputable.
This particular article was posted on 10/02/2006 so its now over a year old.
There are no related links.
It is an Australian site hence the .au on the end of the URL.
Is not a personal page – there are no personal names following the title.
The article was produced to inform and give facts. It is not designed to persuade. Information is not biased
http://www.sydneywater.com.au/EnsuringTheFuture/Desalination/
This site is made by the Sydney Water part of the NSW Government.
‘Sydney Water provides drinking water, recycled water, wastewater services and some stormwater services to more than four million people in Sydney, Illawarra and the Blue Mountains.’
It is not a personal page. It is a government website.
The site has links to other government sites.
The site has information which is of an unbiased nature.
It is an Australian site hence the .au on the end of the URL.
Is not a personal page – there are no personal names following the title.
The article was produced to inform and give facts.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1416663.htm
The site was produced by the ABC.
The site has information which is of an unbiased nature.
It is an Australian site hence the .au on the end of the URL.
Is not a personal page – there are no personal names following the title.
The article was produced to inform and give facts. Is not biased.
The article was posted on Tuesday, 19 July 2005
The site has links to other ABC programs.
http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2005/jul/Water.html
This article has been posted on the 12 July 2005, which is not recent, but the information is still relevant.
The site is produced by the University of New South Wales.
The site has information which is of an unbiased nature.
It is an Australian site hence the .au on the end of the URL.
Is not a personal page – there are no personal names following the title.
The article was produced to inform and give facts.
http://www.suthlib.nsw.gov.au/ssc/home.nsf/WebPages/E2E213220EF39236CA257075001FEC54?OpenDocument&Expand=2
This site is a government site produced for the Sutherland Shire Council.
The site has information which is biased on the desalination issue as the Sutherland Shire could be personally affected if it goes ahead. But, you could inform students that it is a good argument.
It is an Australian site hence the .au on the end of the URL.
Is not a personal page – there are no personal names following the title.
http://webdiary.com.au/cms/?q=node/262
This site is an ‘open conversation between the readers, based on articles about half of which are written by readers, and about half of which are sourced from Project Syndicate.’
The site allows people to join in debates on political and local issues.
The site has advertisements which are unrelated to the site and its contents.
The information which is posted may not be accurate or correct, so students use information at there own risk.
Why is the understanding of the new literacies important?
Until recently, I believed ‘literacy’ was the understanding of language through reading and writing and students learnt these skills using traditional resources and techniques. However, with the electronic age, students are faced with a whole new medium of information to navigate their way through and understand. Educators and students need to be able to critically analyse this information on websites and learning software to determine its ‘authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias and useability (Schrock, K 2002).
Since there is not a single body which ensures that all sites are relevant, unbiased and whether they are trying to sell something, students (as well as educators) need to adopt a series of techniques to help them find what they are looking for.
The web is still so young and it is rapidly changing and growing everyday. With change, the design of web sites and learning software is being updated all the time with the idea of being more enjoyable and engaging to the reader. The information may be presented in various ways such as digital images, fonts, size, colour etc. to make it more appealing. We need to teach our students new literacy skills to scan through all the ‘bells and whistles’ and make informed judgements based upon validity.
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