Lateral reading, critical thinking: Teaching students to evaluate online information like the pros [slides]
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Jenny Dale, Information Literacy Coordinator and Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: [Slides from a presentation given online March 26, 2021 at the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy.] In Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, Mike Caulfield describes lateral reading as reading “across many connected sites instead of digging deep into the site at hand” (2017, ch. 16). Research indicates lateral reading is a powerful tool for fact-checking and online source evaluation. This interactive session will provide a comparison between lateral reading and more traditional vertical reading strategies for evaluating web sources, as well as sample interactive activities for teaching lateral reading skills in a variety of contexts.
Lateral reading, critical thinking: Teaching students to evaluate online information like the pros [slides]
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- Publication
- Language: English
- Date: 2021
- Keywords
- lateral reading, information literacy, source evaluation, SIFT