Meanderings

Meanderings.
I've been trying to get it working in my head what this unit really is about, and how it would best benefit me in my teaching practice?
I can see how to use technology in the classroom situation, as a teaching and learning tool and as a creative expression and a research facility. You see, I can learn all that myself, as I need to and teach others along the way. But what really concerns me is, IF I throw away the use of closed text as has been sugested, how do I do the referencing to check for valid information when a student presents me with an assignment that is researched purely on the web. How do I do web checks for this information, that would be useful to know. In what way do I check for plagerism, how will I be able to assess that the work presented to me, is the students and not an overly protective parent. Now I realise that, some kids are quite advanced but sometimes their work really is so well put together that I question whos work it really is. I know from my own experience that only having web based reference is very hard to follow up and find out wether the student did their own work or another person did it for them. See this makes marking hard because then this presentation is extremely well presented and a child that struggles but has presented work that is hand written and researched on the web and through closed text and maybe they don't have acess to a computer, they loose marks because it doesn't look as good as the other kids.
there are sa number of issues that need adressing here, of course, but what I really feel is very important is that as a teacher I have ways of checking the web information that I am presented with is correct and that the marks that I give are fair and reflect a just process.
Now that would be helpful!