Website Evaluation
GeekDad via Wired
This link provides the students with an introduction to Cybersecurity from a personal perspective. Blog serve as insight from your atypical scholar, everyday citizens who provide feedback, recommendations, and/or insight on any given topic. They can be searched through any number of sites such as Google or Techonorati and open the doors to digital communication. They may be referenced for citizen opinion and often times link to more reliable or scholarly sources. A great place to begin!This particular article is written by a Geek Dad who has recently decided to teach his daughter, personally, to use the web. It was a conscious decision to play an active role in his daughter's development of Internet usage. What is your role in protecting yourself online?
Department of Homeland Security
Referenced by: Cybersecurity for Government The DHS offers a more organized and first hand account of Cybersecurity. Providing this website for students will facilitate their access to knowledge of the topic. The link is to the 'Family and Business tips' part of their website. The information listed provides the student with expert research and tips on Cybersecurity. The article provides information on today's work and study in Cybersecurity. The Internet has posed a new dilemma in the new millennium. While we have greater access to information, it comes at a cost. More and more websites are requiring an infinite amount of information for their services. That information is more valuable than any service can provide, it is all that we are in this country. Students ought to know that they have a responsibility for protecting themselves online and beginning with these tips is the best way to get them on the right path.
Big6
Referenced by: Utah Education Network, Clarkstown Central School District Information literacy Curriculum
The Big6 is a system which provides a framework for analyzing web sources. It is very in depth and provides resources to compliment their material. I chose this site because of its breadth. It offers a process that is accessible to students and teachers alike. The resources provide the teacher and students with the material needed to get started right away. The readings are in outline format and the 6 steps are broken down as well. They all don't have to completed in its entirety to realize the value of web sources. The students will read through these steps and discern for themselves how effective blogs and the DHS at conveying scholarly information.
Internet Behavior
This PDF of a presentation is listed as a reference so that students can analyze a single person's presentation of their researched knowledge on the subject of Cybersecurity. Using Big6 resources, students will use the information on these three website to develop a thesis and a 2500 word essay on Cybersecurity. Which also includes a analysis on the web sources themselves, citing them correctly as scholarly or mere hearsay. Through this lesson, students will learn the valuable lessons of Cybersecurity and analyzing web resources.
This link provides the students with an introduction to Cybersecurity from a personal perspective. Blog serve as insight from your atypical scholar, everyday citizens who provide feedback, recommendations, and/or insight on any given topic. They can be searched through any number of sites such as Google or Techonorati and open the doors to digital communication. They may be referenced for citizen opinion and often times link to more reliable or scholarly sources. A great place to begin!This particular article is written by a Geek Dad who has recently decided to teach his daughter, personally, to use the web. It was a conscious decision to play an active role in his daughter's development of Internet usage. What is your role in protecting yourself online?
Department of Homeland Security
Referenced by: Cybersecurity for Government The DHS offers a more organized and first hand account of Cybersecurity. Providing this website for students will facilitate their access to knowledge of the topic. The link is to the 'Family and Business tips' part of their website. The information listed provides the student with expert research and tips on Cybersecurity. The article provides information on today's work and study in Cybersecurity. The Internet has posed a new dilemma in the new millennium. While we have greater access to information, it comes at a cost. More and more websites are requiring an infinite amount of information for their services. That information is more valuable than any service can provide, it is all that we are in this country. Students ought to know that they have a responsibility for protecting themselves online and beginning with these tips is the best way to get them on the right path.
Big6
Referenced by: Utah Education Network, Clarkstown Central School District Information literacy Curriculum
The Big6 is a system which provides a framework for analyzing web sources. It is very in depth and provides resources to compliment their material. I chose this site because of its breadth. It offers a process that is accessible to students and teachers alike. The resources provide the teacher and students with the material needed to get started right away. The readings are in outline format and the 6 steps are broken down as well. They all don't have to completed in its entirety to realize the value of web sources. The students will read through these steps and discern for themselves how effective blogs and the DHS at conveying scholarly information.
Internet Behavior
This PDF of a presentation is listed as a reference so that students can analyze a single person's presentation of their researched knowledge on the subject of Cybersecurity. Using Big6 resources, students will use the information on these three website to develop a thesis and a 2500 word essay on Cybersecurity. Which also includes a analysis on the web sources themselves, citing them correctly as scholarly or mere hearsay. Through this lesson, students will learn the valuable lessons of Cybersecurity and analyzing web resources.