Information Literacy

Information literacy in reference to the internet means to be educated about the information you have retrieved. Is the information credible or did someone just want to rant? The MAPit technique shows you how to disseminate incorrect information from correct information. It is not just important for the teacher to have this knowledge but is especially important for the students to know how to do this. Students today find out a majority of their information not from parents, books, or educated people, but from Google and various search engines. Not knowing whether the information is valid creates a generation of misinformed youth. I have always wondered whether the information I was finding was valid. I have gone back and checked many of the websites that I used previously in my classroom and was shocked by how much I trusted search engines to weed out the appropriate information, even the engines deemed “educational”. Without this technique, I would have continued to offer possibly incorrect information to my students.