Credible Sites?

The majority of the links provided to us are obvious to me that they are not credible sites to use. First of all, the first pregnant male or the tree octopus are not real, existent things. However, young children who are just learning how to use the internet as a resource may not recognize the obvious. Some of the websites provided may confuse an unexperienced person, like the Martin Luther King website. When you quickly glance at this website it may look to be credible; however, when you start to read through the website you realize that it talks about rap and communism, which has nothing to do with why Martin Luther King Jr. is a historical person. So, I would encourage my students to carefully read through websites to see if the website is talking about what it should be talking about. One thing I found on the explorer website explained that it is not a credible website on its "about" page. So, students should read the about page, if the website has one, to check the main purpose of the website. I would explain to my students that they need to be skeptical about the information that they get. Lastly, on the bottom of the dihydrogen monoxide website it contained excessive advertisements. I would inform my students that this should be a red flag. Credible, informative websites do not usually provide excessive advertisements on its webpage.