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Evaluating Sources - Critical Thinking

Evaluating Sources - Critical Thinking

This video addresses the nature of intellectual authority and its problematic aspects, issuing a call to students to evaluate information sources and the information in them for themselves. It suggests some things to look into before relying on an information source.

Keywords:
critical thinking, reliability, evaluating sources, authority, information literacy
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Material Type:
Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:
November 3, 2013
Date Modified in MERLOT:
July 18, 2020
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Sarah Morehouse
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High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
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English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States

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Sarah Morehouse
Sarah Morehouse (Librarian)
9 years ago
This video goes beyond typical information literacy discussions about authority and reliability and shows students clear examples not only of why they need to evaluate information sources and the information in them for themselves, but how to do so.