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Engage with online reviews

Engage with online reviews

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Engage with online reviews

- [Voiceover] A great way to help students develop critical thinking skills, while also learning how to become more informed and educated online consumers, is to engage them in activities that allow them to practice online shopping skills. In this video, I want to discuss the use of online product descriptions and customer reviews, or comments, in order to do this. I want to introduce an activity that I've had success with. I call it The Toaster Activity. For this activity, students need to help you make a decision on which product to purchase. I like to use a popular and credible site like Amazon.com to do this. The first step, is to explain to the students that you need to purchase a specific type of product. For instance, a toaster, but you'd like them to research different styles and brands, and then give you a recommendation on which one to buy. If you want to make the assignment more relative to your content area, you could use products such as a calculator for math class, or…

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