Document Type
Presentation
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Publication Date
12-19-2023
Abstract
Learning Outcomes:
- Become familiar with and apply lateral reading strategies to evaluating online sources.
- Explore ways to teach lateral reading to students in your educational context.
Audience: All educators, including K-12 teachers, public librarians, academic librarians, educational administrators and community organizers)
Both everyday life experience and a growing body of research show just how hard it is to determine the credibility of online sources. Traditional checklist approaches to evaluating websites (e.g., the CRAAP test) are ineffective, despite their continued prevalence. A more effective approach to quickly assessing the credibility of an online source is lateral reading. “Lateral reading” essentially involves quickly moving off of a webpage and learning more about a source from other online information. In this hands-on virtual workshop, librarians Andrea Baer and Dan Kipnis will introduce “lateral reading” strategies for online source evaluation. Participants will then practice lateral reading and reflect on how they can help students develop these skills.
Recommended Citation
Baer, Andrea and Kipnis, Daniel G., "Online Source Evaluation through “Lateral Reading”: A Workshop for Educators" (2023). Libraries Scholarship. 52.
https://rdw.rowan.edu/lib_scholarship/52
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