Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

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Introduction to Crash Course Navigating Digital Information
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We love the internet! It's a wealth of information where we can learn about just about anything, but it's also kind of a pit of information that can be false or misleading. So, we're .. show full overview
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The Facts about Fact Checking
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We're off to fact checking school. This time, John Green is teaching you how to fact check like the pros. We're going to walk through the steps that professionals follow, including .. show full overview
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Check Yourself with Lateral Reading
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Look to your left. Look to your right. Look at this video. Today, John Green is going to teach you how to read laterally, using multiple tabs in your browser to look stuff up and fact .. show full overview
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Who Can You Trust?
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In which John Green teaches you how to assess the sources of information you find on the internet. The growing suspicion of expertise is a growing problem on the internet, and it can be .. show full overview
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Using Wikipedia
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Let's talk about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often maligned by teachers and twitter trolls alike as an unreliable source. And yes, it does sometimes have major errors and omissions, but .. show full overview
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Evaluating Evidence
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Today we’re going to focus on how to tell good evidence from bad evidence and maybe importantly, how to identify “Fine, but that doesn’t actually prove your point” evidence - the stuff that the Internet is built on.
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Evaluating Photos & Videos
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With the amount of fake and doctored photos and videos out there, how can we know what to trust? Most of us are used to thinking that "seeing is believing" but as technology makes it .. show full overview
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Data & Infographics
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Today, we're going to discuss how numbers, like statistics, and visual representations like charts and infographics can be used to help us better understand the world or profoundly .. show full overview
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Click Restraint
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The architecture of the social internet itself tells us not to be patient - to load more tweets, to hit refresh for new posts, and to click the top search results. But just because .. show full overview
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Social Media
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Today, in our series finale, we're going to talk about the great white whale of navigating online information: your social media feed. Social media shapes both our online and offline .. show full overview