👨💻 Navigating Digital Information #03: Check Yourself with Lateral Reading
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🔇 Distractions Check: Identify the measures you have taken to help prevent distractions and improve your opportunity to focus and learn from this activity.
I have taken steps to help ensure that I will NOT be distracted by...
🔇 Distractions Check: Identify the measures you have taken to help prevent distractions and improve your opportunity to focus and learn from this activity.
I have taken steps to help ensure that I will NOT be distracted by...
👎 Not done | 👍 Prevented! | |
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🔇 notification sounds. | ||
📱 on-screen notifications. | ||
👨👧👦 classmates, friends, family, or other people. | ||
📺 other devices, screens, or media. |
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Early in the video, John Green explains who is behind this Crash Course series. Why is that important information to know?
Early in the video, John Green explains who is behind this Crash Course series. Why is that important information to know?
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Lateral reading helps us understand the truth about the information and those who are sharing that information. What is lateral reading?
Lateral reading helps us understand the truth about the information and those who are sharing that information. What is lateral reading?
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In the example of lateral reading with respect to Internet regulation, the host opened a new tab and looked deeper into what?
In the example of lateral reading with respect to Internet regulation, the host opened a new tab and looked deeper into what?
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In our last lesson, you learned of two fact-checking websites, Snopes and Politifact. In this lesson, those two plus 3 more are specifically listed. Categorize the sites named here.
In our last lesson, you learned of two fact-checking websites, Snopes and Politifact. In this lesson, those two plus 3 more are specifically listed. Categorize the sites named here.
- POLITIFACT
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
- NPR FACT-CHECK
- NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
- FACTCHECK .ORG
- WAPO FACT CHECKER
- SNOPES
- Fact-checking sites named in this video
- Sites NOT named as fact-checking resources
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Is Wikipedia a good source of information?
Is Wikipedia a good source of information?
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Explain why it is a bad idea to passively accept information when it aligns with what you believe and to passively dismiss information when it conflicts with what you believe.
Explain why it is a bad idea to passively accept information when it aligns with what you believe and to passively dismiss information when it conflicts with what you believe.
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🧠 Retrieval Practice:Summarize the content of this lesson. What topics, ideas, and vocabulary were introduced?
🧠 Retrieval Practice:
Summarize the content of this lesson. What topics, ideas, and vocabulary were introduced?