d.
Developing Your Own Knowledge of the Resources
Once
a range of sources from the WWW and various CD-ROM's has been
identified they need to be evaluated critically in terms of accuracy,
validity, reliability, plausibility and bias. You will need to
be confident in the use of the search engines that you suggest
to pupils, including techniques for specifying complex searches
- when and how to use quotation marks, AND (or +), OR, NOT.
All
software that the children may use needs to be test-run and any
arrangements for software licences in the school would need to
be clarified before any software from disks or CD-ROM is installed.
Questions
for Consideration
- Which
ICT techniques would be required by the teacher and pupils when
using these resources?
- What
do you understand by the terms 'accuracy', 'validity', 'reliability',
'plausibility' and 'bias'?
- What
factors of the WWW and CD affect these features?
- In
the web sites you have been referred to, how accurate, valid
and so on do you find the information?
- There
may be other web sites you already know about, or sites you
have picked up from the site-explorer element of your SBOLP
CD-ROM. Which of these could you use for this activity?
Keep
a short record of your responses to these questions for discussion
with your mentor.
 e.
Planning the Work of Learners
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