Hoax Detectives
We're on the hunt for Internet hoaxes, and here is what we found.
posted by Sandy Schaufelberger @ 11:55 AM
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Thursday, June 29, 2006
WebQuest Connections
Today’s educators are being asked to incorporate critical thinking, cooperative learning, authentic assessment, and technology in teaching. WebQuests were designed to bring the most effective instructional practices together in a student-led, teacher-driven activity. The WebQuest model addresses a wide range of topics, goals, environments and learners; as well as technology applications.
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If you look at the sidebars on the Dog Island website, you will see one entitled "Take the Plunge!".
After clicking on that, scroll to the bottom and notice the Vacation Island link. If you click on that link it will talk about a 3 day vacation that owners can take with their dogs. The comment reads: "We apologize to not offer this to poor people, but it takes an enormous amount of money to afford this type of beauty".
Then they offer you the chance to click on a link and check out the prices. Wow! Needless to say, my family won't be going there any time soon!!!!!
This is an interesting evaluation, but I must caution you on the method. Clicking on any link in a potential hoax site may be exactly what the provider wants. I'm sure you've had the experience of other screens opening without your control, and that's what they may want. I would look at this site from the content side. Get kids to evaluate the possibility critically and have a discussion about the likelihood that such an island really exists.
I feel that the brain transplant one is the hoax. There are several grammatical inaccuracies and spelling errors. I feel that if this is truely from a respected hospital and doctor that they would do a better job with their English.
I felt that after looking at the sites the brain transplantation site was the Hoax. I just felt the site lacked the content. Although I did find it hard to believe most of the sites.
Kristie
I feel the Brain Transplantation is definately a hoax for these reasons: 1) are we growing brains like cotton to be picked by workers on plantations? 2) Doesn't the error message say the same thing in two different ways? 3) frozen.icom.com - is this a new flavor of ice cream? 4)Don't case numbers start with 1? Maybe I am looking at this all wrong but I think these are clues that make this site a hoax.
By Fred Hicks.
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