Lesson on Credible Sources

Credible Sources

Open Ended

How do you think easy access to information has positively and negatively affected society?

Easy access to information results in...

• more informed individuals

• easier to research and learn about topics

• fact check what we receive

• learn about multiple view points

Easy access to information results in...

• access to inaccurate information (fake news)

• outdated information

• people who ignorantly believe everything they read/see online to be true

• learn one viewpoint & never bother to learn another

• = IGNORANCE

So how do know which resources are useful?

Open Ended

Why is it important that we learn to detect credible sources when researching a topic?