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  • Unit 1
    • Establish a personal learning environment
    • Introduction to digital literacies
  • Learning in a digital age
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  • Unit 1
    • Establish a personal learning environment
    • Introduction to digital literacies
    • Find and select open resources
    • Learning in a digital age
  • Unit 2
    • Digital citizenship
    • Online identity for learning
    • Digital environments
    • Digital practices in the workplace
    • Societal issues and the internet
  • Unit 3
    • Why open matters
    • Defining OER
    • Copyright
    • Copyright case study
    • Creative Commons
    • Remix game
    • Dimensions of openness
  • Unit 4
    • Introduction to media literacy
    • Mass media
    • Web literacy for fact-checking
    • Create media

Web literacy for fact-checking

1. Overview
2. Four moves
3. Look for previous work
4. Go upstream
5. Read laterally
6. Twitter user identity
7. History of the web
8. Google tips
9. Practice fact-checking
10. Start – Fact-checking challenge
11. Tasks – Fact-checking challenge
12. Outputs – Fact-checking challenge
13. Image challenge

Google tips

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In this section we highlight the importance of checking author expertise and how to trace the source of scholarly quotes using Google. We also remind learners that automatically generated search summaries from Google should not be accepted at face value in being accurate or true.

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Google fact-checking tips

Read the following pages in Caulfield, M. A. (2017). Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers:

  • Using Google scholar to check author expertise
  • Finding out when a page was published using Google
  • Using Google Books to track down quotes
  • Treating Google’s “Snippets” with suspicion

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