👨‍💻 Navigating Digital Information #03: Check Yourself with Lateral Reading

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👨‍💻 Navigating Digital Information #03: Check Yourself with Lateral Reading

Last updated about 4 years ago

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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.

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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...

Early in the video, John Green explains who is behind this Crash Course series. Why is that important information to know?

It's not really that important; he just told us because he is legally bound to tell us.

Knowing where the information comes from helsp us know if it is reliable.

Lateral reading helps us understand the truth about the information and those who are sharing that information. What is lateral reading?

Opening a new tab and looking for new sources.

Following the links provided on a website.

Starting at the bottom of a website, where all the fine print is, and working our way up.

In the example of lateral reading with respect to Internet regulation, the host opened a new tab and looked deeper into what?

The company/group/person who posted the original source

The topic of the original source

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.

NPR FACT-CHECK
FACTCHECK .ORG
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
POLITIFACT
SNOPES
WAPO FACT CHECKER

Fact-checking sites named in this video
Sites NOT named as fact-checking resources

Is Wikipedia a good source of information?

Yes, but like with any source, I should check its sources, read laterally, and fact check.

No, anyone can change what it says on Wikipedia, so it should never be considered a reliable resource.

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?

🔇 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.

Early in the video, John Green explains who is behind this Crash Course series. Why is that important information to know?

It's not really that important; he just told us because he is legally bound to tell us.

Knowing where the information comes from helsp us know if it is reliable.

Lateral reading helps us understand the truth about the information and those who are sharing that information. What is lateral reading?

Opening a new tab and looking for new sources.

Following the links provided on a website.

Starting at the bottom of a website, where all the fine print is, and working our way up.

In the example of lateral reading with respect to Internet regulation, the host opened a new tab and looked deeper into what?

The company/group/person who posted the original source

The topic of the original source

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.

NPR FACT-CHECK

FACTCHECK .ORG

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

POLITIFACT

SNOPES

WAPO FACT CHECKER

Fact-checking sites named in this video

Sites NOT named as fact-checking resources

Is Wikipedia a good source of information?

Yes, but like with any source, I should check its sources, read laterally, and fact check.

No, anyone can change what it says on Wikipedia, so it should never be considered a reliable resource.

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

👨‍💻 Navigating Digital Information #03: Check Yourself with Lateral Reading

👨‍💻 Navigating Digital Information #03: Check Yourself with Lateral Reading

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

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.

🧠 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...

Early in the video, John Green explains who is behind this Crash Course series. Why is that important information to know?

Lateral reading helps us understand the truth about the information and those who are sharing that information. What is lateral reading?

In the example of lateral reading with respect to Internet regulation, the host opened a new tab and looked deeper into what?

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.

Is Wikipedia a good source of information?

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.

🧠 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?