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1 online resource : color illustrations |
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Updated irregularly. |
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text file |
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Open educational resources |
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polychrome |
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Four moves and a habit. Why this book? -- Four moves -- Building a fact-checking habit by checking your emotions Look for previous work. How to use previous work -- Fact-checking sites -- Wikipedia Go upstream. Go upstream to find the source -- Identifying sponsored content -- Activity: spot sponsored content -- Understanding syndication -- Tracking the source of viral content -- Tracking the source of viral photos -- Using Google reverse image search -- Filtering by time and place to find the original -- Activity: trace viral photos upstream Read laterally. What "reading laterally" means -- Evaluating a website or publication's authority -- Basic techniques: domain searches, WHOIS -- Activity: evaluate a site -- Stupid journal tricks -- Finding a journal's impact factor -- Using Google Scholar to check author expertise -- How to think about research -- Finding high quality secondary sources -- Choosing your experts first -- Evaluating news sources -- What makes a trustworthy news source? -- National newspapers of record -- Activity: expert or crank? -- Activity: find top authorities for a subject Field guide. Verifying Twitter identity -- Activity: verify a Twitter account -- Using the Wayback Machine to check for page changes -- Finding out when a page was published using Google -- Citation rates -- Using Google Books to track down quotes -- Understanding Astroturf -- Searching TV transcripts with the Internet Archive -- Treating Google's "snippets" with suspicion -- Using Buzzsumo to find highly viral stories -- Finding out who owns a domain -- Avoiding confirmation bias in searches -- Promoted tweets -- Finding old newspaper articles -- Using the Facebook live map to find breaking coverage Accessibility. Image descriptions -- "Fact-checking sites" image descriptions -- "How to use previous work" image descriptions -- "Go upstream to find the source" image descriptions -- Appendix -- How DigiPo defines a "fact". |
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"The web gives us many such strategies and tactics and tools, which, properly used, can get students closer to the truth of a statement or image within seconds. For some reason we have decided not to teach students these specific techniques. As many people have noted, the web is both the largest propaganda machine ever created and the most amazing fact-checking tool ever invented. But if we haven't taught our students those capabilities is it any surprise that propaganda is winning? This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly."--Open Textbook Library. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). |
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Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Textbooks |
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Open Textbook Library |
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Unrestricted online access |
| Terms Of Use |
"Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers" by Michael A. Caulfield is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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Internet literacy.
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Internet literacy. |
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Information literacy.
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Information literacy. |
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Electronic information resource literacy.
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Electronic information resource literacy. |
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OER. |
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Electronic books.
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Textbooks.
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Open educational resources.
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Textbooks.
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Open Textbook Library, distributor.
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Web literacy for student fact-checkers : and other people who care about facts. |
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