Reflection: Evaluating Websites

This class assignment made me aware of the importance of a website's validity. I never really considered this through an educator's perspective, but I feel that it is truly very important. As educators we are responsible for everything that we expose our students to, inside and outside of the classroom. It is our responsibility to make sure that the supplemental resources that we refer to our students is safe and legitimate. Before I never thought to research the author of the page and make sure that he is an expert in his field. I have always been warned by teachers not to use wikipedia as a resource in research. This didn't make a large impact on my view of website validity, but after viewing sites with these objectives in mind, I understand the gravity of accountability and current revising. I think these are good requirements to keep in mind as we search as educators for educational websites.