“You can’t always trust the internet. Any one can post anything on it.” I remember hearing this a lot in junior high (for almost every teacher) and they could not have been more right. They taught us simple checks to validate the information; if it is unlike anything you have learned… it could be “made-up,” if it was from a .edu, .org, .gov website, it could be trusted, etc. The checks were helpful yet not a very good method of discovering the accuracy of the information provided. The website martinlutherking.org was a good example of the ineffectiveness of the checks. It is an organizational site with references that seem reliable (newsweek, new york times, etc.), but the author and its affliliation were unlisted. The information and links within the website were irrelevant and lacking value. A lot of it was also inappropriate for a young audience because of language, sex, and violence. A number of links were either not available or under construction (a negative indicator). How can a teacher instruct students in choicing accurate information especially since this site was listed as number 25 in a google search (keyword: martin luther king junior)? It is a difficult task and the checks provided by my teachers in the past can still be used, but others should be added and some adjusted. Inform the students that a number of pages on the web may be inaccurate, and allow students the oppertunity to have the websites from which they are gathering information validated by an adult if the contents seems questionable.