Some of your assignments will require you to find sources on the internet, but not everything you find online will be reliable. It's important to develop evaluation skills and learn to identify quality information. There are several methods for evaluating online sources, most of which are a version of a fact-checking technique called Lateral Reading. You can watch an introduction to lateral reading in the video below.
On this page, you can learn more about techniques for evaluating online sources, including
The S.I.F.T. technique can be used to evaluate information you find online. It is also known as the Four Moves.
S.I.F.T. (The Four Moves) is is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Read more about SIFT (The Four Moves).
This omnibar hack is a shortcut to looking up a source you've found in Wikipedia - it's one way to do the I for INVESTIGATE the source move.
The “Just Add Wikipedia In the Omnibar” Trick
You can use Google Images to search for images you find online. The video below will show you how it works.
The video below summarizes how fact checkers evaluate search results before clicking on a link.
Visit the following links and and consider your biases when presented with the content you find there.
The Pacific Northwest tree octopus
Weird & Wonderful Creatures: The Blobfish
In this activity, you will try to trace the source of the image in the infamous shark tweet.