Today, the internet is a vast and ever-changing source of information. With so much information available at our fingertips, it can be difficult to know where to start or what to trust. In particular, students can finding it challenging to go beyond using the first few results of an internet search to answer their questions. That’s why it’s important to evaluate the reliability of sources before using them.
The Rauru Whakarare Evaluation Framework is a kaupapa Māori-informed approach to evaluation that helps users to critique and engage deeply with the information that surrounds them. The framework embodies the interconnectedness of whakapapa (background), orokohanga (origins), mana (authority), māramatanga (content), and aronga (lens). By integrating Māori concepts into the framework, the authors Angela Feekery,Carla Jeffrey (Ngai Tuhoe), promote deeper engagement with the information evaluation process than can be captured using English terms.
The term Rauru Whakarare relates to describing a complex pattern, so it is useful when explaining the concept to students to show a range of patterns from simple to complex. The following resource attempts to do this:
So by combining the patterns of Rauru and Whakarare, we end up with a complex pattern that can help explaining the complexity of evaluating online sources.
The Sheet version allows learners to give each of the criteria a score which is then represented on a Spider graph. Click here to make a copy of the Sheet.
The Doc version has sentence stems for learners to complete as well as using Drop down options. Click here to make a copy of the Doc.
