Module 3.1 Information Literacy and the General Internet
The internet is not all bad but finding the good parts can be challenging. This series of videos is designed to help you find those good parts so that you can be sure you are getting the best and most accurate information. First up, what exactly, is information literacy?
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Information Literacy overview Content farms
What is information literacy? Image manipulation
Module 3.2 Media Bias
The media is an important component of our understanding of the world, but we have to be careful we are using media that reports in an unbiased and accurate way. How do you find sites like this? Watch and find out.
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Module 3.3 CRAAP
As part of our ongoing journey to understand what makes a quality website, this video is designed to help you understand CRAAP when you see it. Be ready to look for currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose in your site selection.
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Module 3.4 Propaganda
What makes propaganda good or bad? The agenda that it serves (and whether or not you agree with it). You might be Black Lives Matter. You might be Back the Blue. Whichever side you are on, you are far more likely to believe information that comes from someone who claims to be on that side. You may even entirely ignore information that comes from the other side. More importantly, when you hear information, no matter how outrageous, that supports your beliefs, you are likely to believe it. You WANT to believe so it is easier to convince you. Today we are going to look at why that is and ways to start looking differently at the information you are getting.
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Module 3.5 Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
We are moving away from general information literacy topics to discuss some very specific types of things you need to look for. In this video we are going to look at the differences between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources and help you figure out when to use which kind. (HINT: never use tertiary sources for scholarly work.)
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Types of sources Using newspapers
Module 3.6 How to read a URL
The last aspect of information literacy we are going to look at is how to read a URL. The URL is the address of a web site and they come with a lot of different options. Knowing which ones are most likely to have scholarly information can help you weed out a lot of the crappy websites.
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