While I do believe that evaluating the reliability of a website is necessary for a teacher, this form of evaluation seems almost like overkill. The form seemed to take EVERY aspect of the website into consideration: Sources, Original content, Flow of the website, Publishing dates, etc. While all of these are necessary to determine a websites reliability, this process seems to take reliability to the next level. Even the official NASA website that I used did not meet all of the criteria.
However, I do believe that this method is very effective, although time-consuming. After using this method a few times, I believe the educator would become very conscious of website reliability, and would be able to determine whether a website is reliable or simply an appealing hoax.
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