A lot of information is available in the world wide web today. Unfortunately not all of it can be trusted to be true. What you read on social media websites is always slanted to make the person writing the post appear in a positive light. When you need to find out what the actual fact is, you need to go to an objective neutral source. Think of websites like National Geographic, University based study notes and other reputed authors.
Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest
The social networking on these sites may give you a good initial source of material that you may like to teach to your homeschool students. However it would be prudent to pick up the basic principles from these posts and then run them by an actual study textbook to see if what is being taught is correct and factual. It’s easy to get a printed book from the library written by a reputed author and check.
Destroy Urban Myths
Just because there is an article on a website saying something is true, does not make it so. There are stories about mishaps happening, famous people dying and even misquoted scientific facts doing the rounds on the internet. It would make more sense to use myth busting sites like Snopes, Hoax Slayer, Truth or Fiction, to make sure that what you are teaching in your homeschool classroom is the truth of the matter.
The World of Academia
While sensational news may work well in the fields of journalism and business, things are different when you are a parent who also happens to be homeschooling. When scholars from reputed universities write their paper, they do not quote sources such as popular social media websites. They work with references from the world of academia and use works of reputed authors who are actual experts in their field.
Take a page out of their book, and ensure that the material you teach your little ones in the homeschool classroom is indeed the truth. Remember you are their primary source of information and you need to be responsible enough to ensure that the information that they get is always correct.
