Comp Notes
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Research: Evaluating Sources
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Mark Sutton
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Fourth in this series on research, this episode will focus on strategies for evaluating sources, with a particular focus on Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg's SIFT model.
Additional Materials
- Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg's Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (advertisement for book)
- "Evaluating for Relevancy" and "Evaluating for Credibility" from Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
- Amanda Lloyd's "Misinformation and Disinformation"
- Mike Caulfield's "SIFT (The Four Moves)"
- Mike Caulfield's "SIFTing through the Pandemic"
- Mike Caulfield's "Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers"
- This online book presents an older version of SIFT, but it is still effective.
- CTRL-F's "Verification Skills 2024" (Video playlist)
- Ellen Carillo and Alice Horning's "Effectively and Efficiently Reading the Credibility of Online Sources"
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