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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Keep It Real with Snopes.com and FactCheckEd.org

Snopes.com is a site you can visit to find out if something is true or not. It is 100 percent dedicated to finding out the truths and falsities of urban legends, modern day myths and any other stories that travel around the Internet and the realistic world. For example, maybe you heard a story from one of your friends, but you're just not sure whether it's reputable or not. Well, to clear up your suspicions, you can visit Snopes and put your wonderings to rest.

When you visit the site, you will see a bunch of categories listed on the page. There's everything from Businesses to Old Wives' Tales to Sports to Food and so on and so on. They even have a special category for Disney myths and one for Coke products. Everything is covered here!

Once you find a category you'd like to explore, just click it. Each story will have a rating of True, False, Multiple Truth Values, Undetermined or Unclassifiable Veracity. Each one will also have the facts behind why it's rated the way it is.

You can add your own story to the site by checking out the message boards. Snopes also works with photos, so don't forget to check them out if you have some vision.

Click this link to visit http://www.snopes.com.

FactCheckEd.org

From the site:

"You may think there are already plenty of Web sites devoted to teaching kids one thing or another, from elementary to obscure. Our goal is a little different. We believe that truth is an elusive commodity in our world of ceaseless communication, a world in which information is transmitted in huge helpings and in a virtual instant. All of us are overwhelmed with messages, many of them attempts to persuade us to do or buy something.

"Our aim is to help students learn to be smart consumers of these messages, not to accept them at face value; to dig for facts using the Internet, not to stop looking once they get to Wikipedia; and to weigh evidence logically, not to draw conclusions based on their own biases.

"The materials on this site, then, are meant to help students acquire the skills to see through the spin." Click this link to check out http://www.FactCheckEd.org for yourself.

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