Understand the Impact of Digital Choices
Curate Your Digital Footprint
Analyze, Evaluate, and Create All Forms of Media
Protect Private Information
Digital Citizens
Use Tech Responsibly
Positive Online Interactions
Today we are talking about how to...
Analyze, Evaluate, and Create All Forms of Media
Vocabulary
Media Literacy: The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of communication.
Remember: We are bombarded with all kinds of information, every day, all day long. Being media literate means being smart about what information you believe and which sources you trust.
Lateral Reading: the act of evaluating the credibility of a source by comparing it with other sources.
Vocabulary
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a.k.a Lateral Reading
Avoid always clicking the first link.
Question every link and website...verify and compare unknown links and websites to others.
Listen to your gut feeling about the site.
STOP
WHO IS THE AUTHOR?
WHO FUNDED THIS?
WHERE DID THE INFO COME FROM?
INVESTIGATE
LOOK FOR THE AUTHOR’S NAME
AND QUALIFICATIONS
IF YOU CAN’T FIND AN AUTHOR,
THE SOURCE MIGHT NOT BE RELIABLE
CHECK THE FACTS
IF IT SEEMS UNBELIEVABLE,
IT MIGHT BE
LOOK FOR OTHER SOURCES
WITH THE SAME INFORMATION
IF IT’S VIRAL OR SEEMS WEIRD...
FIND OTHER SOURCES THAT YOU TRUST
IF YOU CAN’T FIND OTHER SOURCES...IT MIGHT NOT BE AN ACCURATE SOURCE
FIND MORE COVERAGE
WHERE DO THE QUOTES, PICTURES, VIDEOS OR STATISTIC COME FROM?
TRACE ORIGINAL CONTEXT
CHECK THE PICTURES
YOUR BEST DEFENSE AGAINST UNRELIABLE SOURCES IS
CRITICAL THINKING!
ALWAYS QUESTION AND INVESTIGATE BEFORE YOU BELIEVE A SOURCE
Family Activity: Protecting Private Information
Being careful about sharing personal information is important.
Click the picture below for discussion question to share with your family about how you can better protect yourself online.