POST 2: cRITICAL EVALUATION OF INFORMATION

Critical evaluation of information has been important since the early days of the Internet. Trying to figure out if the information one was searching for was credible was difficult. With the new web  focus on AI, it is even more important that students need to know how to judge the information they are presented with. 

Below, I have included downloadable versions of my guides to help students internalize how best to do this.

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CRITICAL EVALUATION GUIDES

evalelem.pdf
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evalhigh.pdf
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evalipad_content.pdf
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evalipad_creation.pdf
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evalonline_creation.pdf
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evalpodcast.pdf
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evalblog.pdf
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evalblog_spanish.pdf
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evalvideo.pdf
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bookmark.pdf
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evalandroid_content.pdf
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SITES TO USE FOR DEMONSTRATING CRITICAL EVALUATION

1. All About Explorers: Christopher Columbus
2. Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies
3. Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
4. Boilerplate: Mechanical Marvel of the 19th Century
5. Burmese Mountain Dog
6. Burmese Mountain Dog 2​
7. California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge
8. Case Analysis of a Historic Killer Tornado
9. Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
10. Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
11. Google Job Opportunities
12. Google Technology
13. Jacopo di Poggibonsi
14. Mankato (MN) Home Page
15. MoonBeam Enterprises and Lunar Travel Agency
16. History of the Fisher-Price Airplane
17. OvaPrima Foundation
18. Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
19. Target Field Collapses
20. Taxonomy of Barney
21. Visit Exciting Fredericton

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CRITICAL EVALUATION AND MEDIA LITERACY FOR ADULTS

1. A digital media literacy intervention for older adults
2. Critically evaluating information
3. Media literacy for older adults (video)
4. Across the generations: Media literacy for seniors (video)
5. Media literacy across generations (video)
6. Promoting media literacy among older people: A systematic review​
7. ​Media literacy for grown-ups
8. Media literacy for adults (ALA)
9. Promoting digital literacy for adult learners: A resource guide

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FAKE NEWS FACT-CHECKING SITES

1. AllSides
2. Fact Check
3. Snopes
4. Google Reverse Image Search
5. Media Bias / Fact Check
6. Rate My Source
7. Glenn Wiebe Wakelet on fake news

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FAKE NEWS TIPS AND LESSON PLANS

1. Fake News Self-Assessment (student lesson)
2. The honest truth about fake news (lesson plan)​
3. LMU Hannon Library: ​Tips for evaluating fake news
4. ​Cornell University Library: How to spot fake news
5. 6 strategies students can use to combat fake news
6. PBS Learning Media: Fake news lesson plans
7. Factcheck: How to spot fake news
8. NY Times: Evaluating sources in a post-truth world
9. KQED: Fighting fake news
10. Harvard Summer School: 4 tips for spotting fake news
11. Google Search: Fake news infographics

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CRITICAL EVALUATION INFO AND LESSON PLANS

1. 21CIF Lesson Plan and Action Research Repository
   ...links to lesson plans dealing with information fluency
2. All about explorers ​...fictional biographies of explorers
3. But I found it on the Internet!
   ...an article about the need to teach critical evaluation skills
4. Checklist for Evaluating Web Resources
   ...a one-page, nicely presented checklist of criteria
5. Common Sense Media: K-12 Scope and Sequence
6. Critically Analyzing Information Sources
   ...a well-done overview of the critical analysis of sites
7. Evaluating Internet Sources and Sites
   ...a common-sense guide to critical evaluation of online info
8. Evaluating Internet-Based Info: A Goals-Based Approach...​an interesting essay and evaluation form by David Warlick from 1998
9. Evaluating Web Content: Social Networking Sites
   ...an quick overview of the things to look for to determine credibility (for all types of online sites)
10. Evaluating Web Resources
    ...a great site which looks at the different types of pages
11. Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
    ...a well-done handout with questions for students to consider
12. IMSE Science Web Site Evaluation
    ...questions for the specialized evaluation of science sites​
13. Information Skills Rating Scale
    ...a sample rubric that may be used to assess students' research skills
14. Purdue OWL: Preventing Plagiarism Lessons 
15. Steps to Web Evaluation posters: A B C D E F G
16. Teaching Zack to Think
    ...a seminal article by Alan November
17. Ten C's for Evaluating Internet Resources
    ...a narrative evaluation sheet with useful information
18. ReadWriteThink  "plagiarism" keyword search
19. Thinking Critically about Web 2.0 and Beyond
    ...items to consider for Web 2.0 tools
20. Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
    ...a well-done critical evaluation essay
21. UC Berkeley: Critical Evaluation Worksheet
    ...another quality evaluation form to use with students
22. UC Berkeley: Evaluating Web Pages- Why it is Important
    ...an evaluation activity including a lesson, slideshow, and more​
23. Multnomah County Public Library Homework Center
24. 10 creative ways to teach media literacy
    

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Do you have any other sites you used to help with teaching critical evaluation?
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