Information Evaluation
Required
Readings
Discussion
- Bishop 7
- EL pp. 12-15
- learning
standards
- Youtube Video: Information
Deformation
- Fitzgerald, M.A. (2000). Critical thinking 101: The basics of evaluating information. Knowledge Quest, 29 (2), 13-20. (Find a draft of this article, close to the published version, in eLC.)
- MAF's Commentary on Bishop 7: eLC 6340 Resources
- MAF's bookmarks: info-eval
- Lankes, D.
Credibility on the Internet - in eLC-6340-Resources (look for Lankes)
- 1.1A Modeling of strategies to locate, evaluate, and use information for specific purposes
Discussion
- A great topic for April Fools'!
- The Amero; oil in Ogden, Utah
- Learning
standards
- We need to move beyond the simplistic perception of info as
either "good" or "bad." In reality, all info has bias; none is
perfectly accurate nor objective. Some sources are better than
others. Sometimes,
parts can be useful. The consumer must learn to differentiate,
using criteria and strategies.
- Reference
Scenario: A
high school
student in your media center finds one of these sites on the
Internet
while doing research on a related topic. You are suspicious about
these sites, but the student does not notice. Why are
you suspicious? What do you do to help the student?
Discuss how you
would handle
this dilemma,
and make a list of strategies you might suggest to the student.
Debrief and summarize.
- Understand how it works
- Study revision history
- Look for credibility cues in the article
- Look for bias
- Cross-verify
- An ideal laboratory for
critical thinking
- Never
trust a commercial! Many
things are commercials! Marketing is everywhere and meant to be
persuasive - and it's not always in consumers' best interests.
- Links:
When in doubt:
Schrock's eval tools
FactCheckEd.org
www.snopes.com
Clark Howard talks about commercial scams quite often
- American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (1998). Information power: Building partnerships for learning. Chicago: American Library Association.
- Bishop, K. (2007). The collection program in schools: Concepts, practices, and information scources (4th ed.). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
- Fitzgerald, M.A. (1997). Misinformation on the Internet: Applying evaluation skills to online information. Emergency Librarian, 24 (3), 9-14. Available fulltext through GALILEO, Academic Search Premier database.
- Fitzgerald, M.A. (2000). Critical thinking 101: The basics of evaluating information. Knowledge Quest, 29 (2), 13-20. (Find a draft of this article, close to the published version, in WebCT/6340/Readings.)
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- More References
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Page history: 12-30-08, 1-2-09,1/6: structural work; refs; added Lankes ref 2-20-10.
complete refresh 3-31-09; 2-9-10; 3-28-11.