Catch RADCAB Sites: Which Sites Will You Ride?

Presented by: Sara Lissa Paulson

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Students will examine and evaluate a ubiquitous web site (a Kidipede site, a Fact Monster site, or a Wikipedia site) according to the mnemonic RADCAB acronym: for Relevancy, Appropriateness, Detail, Currency, Authority, and Bias. They will work in pairs using a handout to think aloud a systematic evaluation of a web site in order that such critical thinking about web sites used for research becomes routine.

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The RADCAB concept and mnemonic is used in this lesson with the original author’s permission. See information below:

Christensson, Karen M. RADCAB. http://www.radcab.com/ September 8, 2009.

 

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TL introduces the lesson and the RADCAB mnemonic:

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