Activity #19: Rollyo

I can see Rollyo being a great tool in the classroom, particularly for research tasks.  So often students will choose websites that have inaccurate or irrelevant information on them and I am thinking Rollyo would be a great tool to utilise during an assignment.  However, I am conscious of the fact that if I select the websites for the students than I there will be a couple of roll on effects of this including:

1. Students may not begin/continue to develop the skill of critical analysis (i.e. reading through the information and analysing it's appropriateness) when researching.
2. Students may not understand how to determine the validity of a website or how to check the reliability of the source.
3. That as the teacher, I may narrow the point of view which the students could 'bring to the table' in any particular assignment or research task.  Allowing them to select their own websites often broadens the areas of discussion and can put a new spin on a topic.

It is because of these reasons that I will carefully consider Rollyo's use in my classroom before incorporating it.