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Evaluating Sources

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97 percent of researchers use Wikipedia, and the other 3 percent are liars.

"Evaluating Sources for Credibility" by Anne Burke, Lisa Becksford, Daria Dorafshar, Andreas Orphanides, and Josephine McRobbie is licensed by CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US

Summary

#0120

Convey a greatersense of truthfulness

Write a great headline

Provide context for your topic with a subtitle

Visual content is a cross-cutting and universal language, like music. We are able to understand images from millions of years ago, even from other cultures.

With Genially templates you can include visual resources to engage the class from minute 1. You can also highlight key content to facilitate its assimilation and even embed external content that surprises and provides more context to the topic: videos, photos, audios... Whatever you want!

Here you can put a highlighted title

Present your genially with calmness and conciseness.

A great title

Show enthusiasm! Take a deep breath and start your presentation on the topic.

S.I.F.T. FACT CHECK IT!

The more a story is shared, the more it can change tone, pickup misleading context in the form of captions, remixes/duets. etc.

Fact Check

Lateral Reading

What Is This?

Get Real

Stop

Do you know the website or source of information? Check your bearings and consider your purpose.

Investigate the Source

Know the expertise and agenda of your source. Look up your source in Wikipedia. Consider what other sites say about your source. Open multiple tabs to explore.

Find TrustedCoverage

Look for the best info on a topic - use these tools to check if claims are fact-based or biased/not supported by evidence

Trace to the Original

Slow down. You may not be able to control the speed and quantity of information out there, but you can control your response. Remember that information is fast paced - sometimes news is reported before all the facts are available!

Question: Would a Quokka yeet her baby at a predator to escape?

Type "quokka throw baby" and see what your results are.

How do we decide which results to use in the new tab?

A show of hands… How many people in the room usually select the first result without much thought?

Here's Michael Caulfield, the originator of S.I.F.T discussing the process of tracking claims and media back to their original context.

Be aware of your emotional response to headlines

• Is it a news story?
• An opinion piece?
• A reaction/remix of someone else's content?
• Before investing your time or sharing, use the other 3 moves!

"Knowing what you are looking at is the first step to figuring out what you can believe."