- EVALUATING RESOURCES -

- Learning Intentions -

• Learn that it may help to serach multiple sites to decide if a source is credible.
• Discover why it's important to be critical of sites you Google.

- success criteria -

• Use Lateral Reading, as needed, to analyze a source.
• Practice Click Restraint when using Google.

When researching, you find a lot of information. But, is it good information?

Ask yourself 3 questions.

1. Who's behind the information?
2. What's the evidence?
3. What do other sources say?

1. Who's behind the information?

Who is the author?
What are their qualifications for providing this information?

What person or organization sponsored the website or created the information?

Lateral Reading

What is the motivation?

Inform? Entertain? Persuade?

2. What's the evidence?

When evidence is attractively presented, convincingly stated, or aligns with our beliefs...

it can be tempting to accept it without stopping to ask whether the evidence comes from a trustworthy source.

Is the evidence RELEVANT TO THE CLAIM?

• Does the evidence directly relate to and support the claim(s) being made?

Is the evidence RELEVANT TO THE CLAIM?

• Is there additional evidence you'd want to see before you were fully convinced?

3. What do other sources say?

We aid in the spread of misinformation if we don’t ensure that a claim or evidence is accurate before we share it.

Lateral Reading

Click restraint

What about Wikipedia?

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