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this article from today's Times Higher Ed:
"Baffled by the ease with which titles promising to turn world history on its head have won huge audiences despite defying logic and lacking proof, Daniel Melia laboured to divine the hidden secrets that allow anyone to identify truly 'bad books'"
Particularly interested, though not entirely
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They didn't even go to an encyclopedia or reference work on the topic, which might've told them many facts they needed to know, plus context and major research trends in the field by professionals.
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Or at the very least point them at one of the excellent tutorials out there on how to evaluate the quality of a Web source, like Internet Detective...
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Thanks for the suggestion of "Internet Detective"; I'll look at this and may suggest it to my class.
Great icon, btw - very appropriate!
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You're so right about strength of habit, too - and I also find students are very poor at transferring skills/information given in one module, into another; when I've taught them database searching skills in the context of one module, they then turn up at the Enquiry Desk needing to do a search for another module and not knowing how. When I remind them that what I taught them last semester should be applicable here, you can hear the cogs grinding painfully...
Internet Detective does at least ram home fairly simply why You Can't Just Rely On The Internet. I'm also quite fond of this Youtube video posted by the University of Liverpool subject librarians, though of course you'd have to redirect your students to your uni's Library website, but it makes the general point ;-)
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