8th Grade English- Mrs. Sarah Blum

Mrs. Blum's 8th grade English classes had the privilege of having Mr. Dimbert, Director of Education Technology here at Yeshivat Noam, join us for a class. Mr. Dimbert came to help us learn how to determine if a website is credible and a reliable source of information. Our classes are writing formal persuasive essays on a myriad of topics in which part of the assignment is to support each argument with a fact or statistic from a reliable website. Through discussion, we learned that when looking at a website, we need to consider many things. For example, one needs to determine who is the author and what is his purpose, when was the article posted, what information is mentioned, and the site's domain, to name a few. Mr. Dimbert then directed us to a website about a tree octopus in the Pacific Northwest that we analyzed thoroughly. We determined it was a "hoax," and we all got a good laugh... It was a lesson that we will remember every time we look at a website for information...