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How to Evaluate Sources
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How to Evaluate Sources
Used and adapted with permission from Sarah Bonner at Chowan University
Welcome WarmUp
What is SIFT?
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Investigate the source
Find better coverage
Trace to the original context
What is lateral reading?
What are academic papers?
Learn more about SIFT & lateral reading
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Further Reading
Civic Online Reasoning
Learn more about lateral reading from the Stanford History Education Group.
Checkology from The News Literacy Project
Get lesson plans for teaching students how to evaluate sources.
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A project by CIVIX and funded by the Canadian government to teach digital literacy skills. It contains videos from Mike Caulfield and Jane Lytvynekno.
News Literacy Project
The News Literacy Project is a non-profit organization whose goal is to fight misinformation. It was founded by Alan Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
News Literacy Research Guide
To learn more about News Literacy, check out Catawba College's News Literacy Research Guide for more resources and tips.
SIFT (The Four Moves)
Read an overview of SIFT by Mike Caulfield on his blog.
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
An open-source textbook that was written by Mike Caulfield about how to do SIFT (The Four Moves)
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