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29 Oct 16Andrea Meyers
"An essential part of online research is the ability to critically evaluate information. This includes the ability to read and evaluate its level of accuracy, reliability and bias. "
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edutopia on evaluating quality of digital information
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18 Oct 15Michelle Smart
Guest blogger Julie Coiro, a professor of education, examines four critical thinking disciplines for helping middle and high school students determine the value of information they read online.
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Four critical thinking disciplines for helping middle and high school students determine the value of information they read online.
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An essential part of online research is the ability to critically evaluate information. This includes the ability to read and evaluate its level of accuracy, reliability and bias
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An essential part of online research is the ability to critically evaluate information. This includes the ability to read and evaluate its level of accuracy, reliability and bias. When we recently assessed 770 seventh graders in two states to study these areas, the results definitely got our attention.
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- They rarely attend to source features such as author, venue or
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19 Feb 15pauldefran
Guest blogger Julie Coiro, a professor of education, examines four critical thinking disciplines for helping middle and high school students determine the value of information they read online.
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26 Jan 15Cheryl Taylor
Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information: http://t.co/DoVtOabYrV via @edutopia @icentremta #digcit
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16 Oct 14Lisa Noble
Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information: http://t.co/Jeh0APzPGm via @edutopia #oclmooc #dcmooc #etmooc
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17 Sep 14Jacinta Ebbott
Guest blogger Julie Coiro, a professor of education, examines four critical thinking disciplines for helping middle and high school students determine the value of information they read online.
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clear definitions and discussion of these dimensions
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Relevance
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information's level of importance
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Accuracy
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Bias/Perspective
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author
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position or slant
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level of trustworthiness based on information about the author and the publishing body
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Reliability
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evaluating relevance and accuracy involves considering the quality of the content itself
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judgments about perspective and reliability require an examination of details about the author and his or her agenda in relation to a specific affiliation
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make time to explicitly model how to evaluate each dimension and provide repeated opportunities for students to practice and apply these strategies
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Pair strategy instruction with written prompts to guide students toward independence
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adolescent readers often distort or disregard new ideas that contradict their thinking, and revise their reading path to focus only on locating details that confirm their thinking
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Prompts can ask students to systematically look for evidence that supports and refutes key claims
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value of a
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healthy skepticism
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older students appreciate the structure and clear expectations of thinking prompts that move beyond the typical checklist and ask for evidence that supports their thinking
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working in small groups as they grapple with these issues, and then meet back to exchange strategies with the whole class
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- Is this site relevant to my needs and purpose?
- What is the purpose of this site?
- Who created the information at this site, and what is this person's level of expertise?
- When was the information at this site updated?
- Where can I go to check the accuracy of this information?
- Why did this person or group put this information on the Internet?
- Does the website present only one side of the issue, or are multiple perspectives provided?
- How are information and/or images at this site shaped by the author's stance?
- Is there anyone who might be offended or hurt by the information at this site?
- How can I connect these ideas to my own questions and interpretations?
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Neil Dix-Pincott
Guest blogger Julie Coiro, a professor of education, examines four critical thinking disciplines for helping middle and high school students determine the value of information they read online.
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Neil O'Sullivan
"Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information"
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12 Aug 14Jen Cronan Flinn
3 stages of thinking. Use these prompts to help teens cross check claims between multiple sources
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Lisa Durff
Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information: http://t.co/Ih9FMxEqbp via @edutopia
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30 Jun 14Lauren Rosen
Critical thinking about online content. Helping students determine what content is worth citing and using in their work. Information literacy.
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17 Jun 14Michelle Gaydash
Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online INFO http://t.co/W5Tw3hMjve via @edutopia #EdChat
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14 Jun 14Karen Bonanno
Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information http://t.co/QiljRgDK64 #inquirylearning
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more concerned with content relevance than with credibility.
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rarely attend to source features
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judgments are often vague, superficial and lack reasoned justification
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multiple dimensions of critical evaluation
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Relevance
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Accuracy
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Bias/Perspective
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Reliability
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Pair strategy instruction with written prompts to guide students toward independence
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adolescent readers often distort or disregard new ideas that contradict their thinking
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revise their reading path to focus only on locating details that confirm their thinking
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Cross-checking
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introducing students to multiple perspectives and new ways of thinking about content
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David Ellena
Some tips on helping students evaluate online resources
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05 May 14Eileen Schroeder
How to teach adolescents to evaluate the quality of online information.
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29 Apr 14Lenessa Keehn
Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information http://t.co/ZzQHjFSoXU via @edutopia
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25 Apr 14Anne Weaver
Guest blogger Julie Coiro, a professor of education, examines four critical thinking disciplines for helping middle and high school students determine the value of information they read online.
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Catherine Morton
Strategies for evaluating online information.
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24 Apr 14lprewandowski
This article is in my curated magazine to help teachers remember that they are teaching students how to become better researchers. This should motivate teachers to realize that they need to continue to learn. They can't keep teaching based on old methods.
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MCHS MediaCenter
Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information http://t.co/II6nlv8bQS via @edutopia #tlchat #edchat #RU575
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23 Apr 14Jennifer Lubke
The author, Julie Coiro, is a standout in the field of digital and information literacy, but I am not surprised by her research findings that more than 70 percent of 700 middle-schoolers demonstrated "shortcomings" in ability to critically evaluate information.
Why should kids know how to evaluate online information, when we really don't teach them how to evaluate information in general?
That doesn't diminish or take away from Coiro's assertion that "the problem is not likely to go away without intervention during regular content area instruction." I agree. Let's teach critical literacies across the content areas.
The remainder of Coiro's column seeks to address this question: "So, what can you do to more explicitly teach adolescents how to evaluate the quality of online information?" What would be interesting is to engage preservice teachers in a dialogue about how Coiro's suggestions for critical evaluation of online sources apply (or, do not apply) to ALL sources of information. -
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Mr. Mansour
Best practices for evaluating online research from Edutopia
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Karen Francis
Guest blogger Julie Coiro, a professor of education, examines four critical thinking disciplines for helping middle and high school students determine the value of information they read online.
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19 Apr 14Michael Walker
Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information: http://t.co/y3Z0Ws5ITD (via @edutopia) #digcit
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Middle school students are more concerned with content relevance than with credibility.
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- They rarely attend to source features such as author, venue or publication type to evaluate reliability and author perspective.
- When they do refer to source features in their explanations, their judgments are often vague, superficial and lack reasoned justification.
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Dimensions of Critical Evaluation
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- Relevance: the information's level of importance to a particular reading purpose or explicitly stated need for that information
- Accuracy: the extent to which information contains factual and updated details that can be verified by consulting alternative and/or primary sources
- Bias/Perspective: the position or slant toward which an author shapes information
- Reliability: the information's level of trustworthiness based on information about the author and the publishing body
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- Verify and refute online information
- Investigate author credentials
- Detect bias and stance
- Negotiate multiple perspectives
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- Recognize ideas they might otherwise ignore
- Weigh the usefulness (and reliability) of these ideas against what they previously believed to be true
- Consider that new ideas may actually be more accurate than their original thinking
Cross-checking claims between multiple sources (see Figure 2) can help adolescents:
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- Is this site relevant to my needs and purpose?
- What is the purpose of this site?
- Who created the information at this site, and what is this person's level of expertise?
- When was the information at this site updated?
- Where can I go to check the accuracy of this information?
- Why did this person or group put this information on the Internet?
- Does the website present only one side of the issue, or are multiple perspectives provided?
- How are information and/or images at this site shaped by the author's stance?
- Is there anyone who might be offended or hurt by the information at this site?
- How can I connect these ideas to my own questions and interpretations?
To that end, I will close with a list of strategies to use or adapt to fit your students’ needs as they refine their ability to think critically while conducting online research:
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Kris Hartley
An article to reference to when discussing this topic with your elementary or older classes.
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