Navigating Digital Information #1

Multiple Choice

How much time does the average American spend online in a week?

• 24 hours

• 4 hours

• 10 hours

• 18 hours

Discuss for 1 minute with your table partner:

How much time do you spend on the internet? Does 24 hours per week (about 3.5 hours a day) seem like a lot? How about 1 in 4 Americans saying they’re online constantly?

Multiple Choice

What fraction of US Adults are online "almost constantly"?

• 1/8

• 1/4

• 1/2

• 1/10

Multiple Choice

Who is immune to misleading information?

• Experts

• Adults

• Professors

• No One

Open Ended

What is one social media app that you find yourself using a lot? How do you use it? If you don't use social media, why not?

Multiple Choice

What does evaluate mean?

• below the usual or required standard. another word for nonstandard.

• to determine the significance, worth, or condition of something.

Multiple Choice

What is one good way to evaluate information online?

• Make sure the design looks professional.

• Check the about page on the site.

• Check the Sources

• Only use sites you've used before.

Discuss for 1 minute with your table partner:

Where do you go online when you want to find more information about something?

Open Ended

What's one change between how we gathered information before the internet and how we gather information now?

Multiple Choice

Why does it matter that not everyone has access to high-speed internet?

• There is no other way to access information.

• There is unequal access to information.

Discuss for 1 minute with your table partner:

How do you think your life would be different if you never had access to the internet?

Multiple Choice

Does a pie chart make a source more reliable?

• No, a pie chart does not make a source more reliable.
• Using a pie chart guarantees accurate information.
• A pie chart is the only way to verify a source's reliability.
• Yes, a pie chart enhances the reliability of a source.

Multiple Choice

What is sponsored content?

• An advertisement that blends in with the content.

• Content that is more reliable.

• A video or article that uses a number of sources to come to a conclusion.

• A way for companies to provide reliable content to consumers.

Open Ended

Why might a company that makes toasters create a site rating the best toasters?

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of sponsored content?

Discuss for 1 minute with your table partner:

Why do you think sponsored content is less reliable even when it looks like a news article?

Multiple Choice

What do fact-checkers do?

• Determine whether or not a fact is included in an article.

• Make sure that every article includes facts.

• Check an advertisement to make sure it is selling products.

• Go through an article to make sure everything is accurate.

Open Ended

In the speaker's story about the "wise old fish" why do you think the young fish don't know what water is? How does that relate to our relationship with the internet?