👨‍💻 Navigating Digital Information #04: Who Can You Trust?

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👨‍💻 Navigating Digital Information #04: Who Can You Trust?

Last updated about 4 years ago

15 questions

Watch the video carefully and respond to the questions and prompts.
For valuable tips to help you get the most from instructional videos, check out How to Watch an Instructional Video.

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Failure to believe and trust expertise is __________.

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The article about Obama and Jay-Z that was published in Infowars is probably not factual. What about the story makes it easy to dismiss?

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When an article is labeled as opinion, analysis, perspective, or viewpoint, it is designed to be __________, not just __________.

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🧠 Retrieval Practice:
Summarize the content of this lesson. What topics, ideas, and vocabulary were introduced?

Watch the video carefully and respond to the questions and prompts.
For valuable tips to help you get the most from instructional videos, check out How to Watch an Instructional Video.

🔇 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...

Quick review: What is lateral reading?

Lateral reading is reading what others have to say about a source in order to learn more about that source. Lateral reading helps you decide if a source is credible.

Lateral reading is how English (and others) is read - left to right - as opposed to vertical reading, like Japanese (and others), which is read from top to bottom.

When trying to figure out if a source is actually an authority on a subject, what should you consider? Select all that apply.

The systems that are in place to catch mistakes and correct them

How professional the website looks

The process they used to produce that information

The author's background

Failure to believe and trust expertise is __________.

What does it mean for a source to share the process they used to produce that information?

The source will inform readers about how and where they got the information in their writing.

The source will inform readers about how and where they do their best writing.

Even the most trustworthy sources can be wrong sometimes; this does not mean we shouldn't trust them. How might a trustworthy source correct their mistake?

The source does not need to correct the mistake because readers and viewers will write in and correct it for them.

The source might publish a correction or add an annotation to the original source, acknowledging and correcting the mistake.

The article about Obama and Jay-Z that was published in Infowars is probably not factual. What about the story makes it easy to dismiss?

Every source has its own perspective. What does perspective mean?

likely to happen in the future

point-of-view

According to the video, what are think tanks?

Groups of experts that provide analysis and do research on various topics and policies.

Groups of college professors who meet to discuss the future of academia.

Should we dismiss information from sources who have a different perspective than our own? Explain.

Yes. If I feel strongly that I'm right about an issue, I should stand by my beliefs and not give other ideas, opinions, or perspectives my time. They are not going to change my mind, so why waste my time?

No. Although I may feel strongly that I'm right, in order to see the whole picture and to fully understand the issue, I should give fair consideration to ideas, opinions, and perspectives that are different from my own. It may not change my mind - and that's ok - but I will be more fully informed.

When an article is labeled as opinion, analysis, perspective, or viewpoint, it is designed to be __________, not just __________.

Why might Daily Kos and Daily Wire present information differently from one another?

One is real news, and one is fake news, so one can be trusted and the other cannot. 

One is made by liberal people, and one is made by conservative people, so they will have different perspectives.

When presented information online, John Green recommends doing these three things. Place them in the correct chronological order.

LOOK AROUND
STOP
THINK

Why should we take the time and effort to consider a source's authority and perspective?

To figure out of they are a reliable source of information

So we can troll them if we don't agree

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🧠 Retrieval Practice:
Summarize the content of this lesson. What topics, ideas, and vocabulary were introduced?

🔇 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!

🔇 notification sounds.

📱 on-screen notifications.

👨‍👧‍👦 classmates, friends, family, or other people.

📺 other devices, screens, or media.

Quick review: What is lateral reading?

Lateral reading is reading what others have to say about a source in order to learn more about that source. Lateral reading helps you decide if a source is credible.

Lateral reading is how English (and others) is read - left to right - as opposed to vertical reading, like Japanese (and others), which is read from top to bottom.

When trying to figure out if a source is actually an authority on a subject, what should you consider? Select all that apply.

The systems that are in place to catch mistakes and correct them

How professional the website looks

The process they used to produce that information

The author's background

What does it mean for a source to share the process they used to produce that information?

The source will inform readers about how and where they got the information in their writing.

The source will inform readers about how and where they do their best writing.

Even the most trustworthy sources can be wrong sometimes; this does not mean we shouldn't trust them. How might a trustworthy source correct their mistake?

The source does not need to correct the mistake because readers and viewers will write in and correct it for them.

The source might publish a correction or add an annotation to the original source, acknowledging and correcting the mistake.

Every source has its own perspective. What does perspective mean?

likely to happen in the future

point-of-view

According to the video, what are think tanks?

Groups of experts that provide analysis and do research on various topics and policies.

Groups of college professors who meet to discuss the future of academia.

Should we dismiss information from sources who have a different perspective than our own? Explain.

Yes. If I feel strongly that I'm right about an issue, I should stand by my beliefs and not give other ideas, opinions, or perspectives my time. They are not going to change my mind, so why waste my time?

No. Although I may feel strongly that I'm right, in order to see the whole picture and to fully understand the issue, I should give fair consideration to ideas, opinions, and perspectives that are different from my own. It may not change my mind - and that's ok - but I will be more fully informed.

Why might Daily Kos and Daily Wire present information differently from one another?

One is real news, and one is fake news, so one can be trusted and the other cannot. 

One is made by liberal people, and one is made by conservative people, so they will have different perspectives.

When presented information online, John Green recommends doing these three things. Place them in the correct chronological order.

LOOK AROUND

STOP

THINK

Why should we take the time and effort to consider a source's authority and perspective?

To figure out of they are a reliable source of information

So we can troll them if we don't agree

	👎 Not done	👍 Prevented!
🔇 notification sounds.
📱 on-screen notifications.
👨‍👧‍👦 classmates, friends, family, or other people.
📺 other devices, screens, or media.

👨‍💻 Navigating Digital Information #04: Who Can You Trust?

👨‍💻 Navigating Digital Information #04: Who Can You Trust?

Watch the video carefully and respond to the questions and prompts.

The article about Obama and Jay-Z that was published in Infowars is probably not factual. What about the story makes it easy to dismiss?

🧠 Retrieval Practice:Summarize the content of this lesson. What topics, ideas, and vocabulary were introduced?

Watch the video carefully and respond to the questions and prompts.

🔇 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...

Quick review: What is lateral reading?

When trying to figure out if a source is actually an authority on a subject, what should you consider? Select all that apply.

What does it mean for a source to share the process they used to produce that information?

Even the most trustworthy sources can be wrong sometimes; this does not mean we shouldn't trust them. How might a trustworthy source correct their mistake?

The article about Obama and Jay-Z that was published in Infowars is probably not factual. What about the story makes it easy to dismiss?

Every source has its own perspective. What does perspective mean?

According to the video, what are think tanks?

Should we dismiss information from sources who have a different perspective than our own? Explain.

Why might Daily Kos and Daily Wire present information differently from one another?

When presented information online, John Green recommends doing these three things. Place them in the correct chronological order.

Why should we take the time and effort to consider a source's authority and perspective?

🧠 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?

🔇 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...

🧠 Retrieval Practice:
Summarize the content of this lesson. What topics, ideas, and vocabulary were introduced?