Digital Literacy

Media Literacy

➡ Use lateral reading to help evaluate online sources by determining:

• who is behind the info?
• what is the evidence?
• what do other sources say?

➡ Read laterally by opening other tabs and going outside of a website to other sites, which can be: 

• Wikipedia
• fact-checking sites (PolitiFact, Snopes, FactCheck.org)
• news outlets

➡ Show click-restraint: don't click on the first result you see! Results are not listed in order of credibility, but rather the top results are often written or sponsored by the organization you're investigating. 

➡ Lateral reading can be done alongside vertical reading (scrolling through the original source to analyze it); just beware that the "About" and "FAQ" pages are controlled by the content creators.

➡ Keep in mind perspective: does this source include multiple perspectives? Are there any voices missing from the conversation?

➡ Check out these useful videos:

• Sort Fact from Fiction Online with Lateral Reading 
• How to Use Wikipedia Wisely
• John Green / Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information

(Adapted from: Civic Online Reasoning and Jennifer Hubert Swan - Upper School Librarian, Hackley School)

➡ Media Literacy and AI (slideshow)

Copyright & Fair Use

➡ Creativity, Copyright & Fair Use (video)