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09 Mar 17
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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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Modeling and Practice
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- Verify and refute online information
- Investigate author credentials
- Detect bias and stance
- Negotiate multiple perspectives
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Prompting
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Cross-checking claims between multiple sources (see Figure 2) can help adolescents:
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Things to Consider as a Healthy Skeptic
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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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- 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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14 Jul 15Stefania Puccini
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. Unfortunately, over 70 percent of their responses suggested that:
Middle school students are more concerned with content relevance than with credibility.
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.
Other studies highlight similar shortcomings of high school and college students in these areas. From my perspective, the problem is not likely to go away without intervention during regular content area instruction.
So, what can you do to more explicitly teach adolescents how to evaluate the quality of online information?evaluation information website-evaluation adolescents edutopia valutazione dell'informazione valutazione informazione ricerca insegnamento information literacy qualitĂ
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01 May 15
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25 Sep 14
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05 Aug 14
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- Middle school students are more concerned with content relevance than with credibility.
- 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
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Accuracy
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Bias/Perspective
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Reliability
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Modeling and Practice
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- Verify and refute online information
- Investigate author credentials
- Detect bias and stance
- Negotiate multiple perspectives
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Prompting
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Recognize ideas they might otherwise ignore
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Weigh the usefulness (and reliability) of these ideas against what they previously believed to be true
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Consider that new ideas may actually be more accurate than their original thinking
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Things to Consider as a Healthy Skeptic
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list of strategies
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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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22 Jul 14
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19 Jul 14Kathryn Harris
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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18 Jul 14
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Pat Kennedy
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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17 Jul 14
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16 Jul 14
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15 Jul 14
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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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Susan MacIntosh
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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pepelp1 alunette
... four critical thinking disciplines for helping middle and high school students determine the value of information they read online.
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Donna F
"So, what can you do to more explicitly teach adolescents how to evaluate the quality of online information?"
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14 Jul 14
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Teri Hawley
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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- 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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Debra Gottsleben
Good post on teaching students how to evaluate online information.
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Carlin Sochor
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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13 Jul 14
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