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Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4 Instructional VideoWho Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4 Instructional Video
Publisher
Crash Course
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Grade
9th - Higher Ed
Subjects
21 Century Skills
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
14:46
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Duration
15 mins
Instructional Strategy
Direct Instruction
Technology
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Year
2019
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Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4

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The best way to understand a website is (drumroll, please) ... to leave the website? Scholars make sense of some strange advice by watching part four in the Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information set. As they watch, they learn strategies for finding credible Internet sources. Pupils also learn how to consider a source's authority and perspective to assess its reliability. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

Media Literacy, information literacy, Digital Citizenship

Additional Tags

classroom support

Instructional Ideas

  • Ask individuals to write a paragraph or essay about how to assess an Internet source's credibility 
  • Challenge students to develop a checklist for determining a website's reliability 

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires a projector and speakers 
  • This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

  • Narrator uses humor to engage audience
  • Provides specific examples from the Internet to drive home key points

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.9-10.2 SL.9-10.3 SL.11-12.2 SL.11-12.3

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