Navigating Digital Information: Review of all Ten Videos

Which best describes the what John Green says about the internet?

• It is useful because it allows because to have easy access to factual information and prevents people from living in ignorance.

• It is useful because it allows more people to have a voice in public conversations, but of course, the Internet is also littered with misleading, sensationalized, and downright false information.

• It is useful because it allows only the most educated people to publish on websites that appear reputable, but allows everyone to have a voice through social media.

• Because the internet allows everyone to have a voice, it has all but eliminated inequality.

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Check all the true statements.

• While it can feel like everyone is participating in Facebook or Instagram, in fact billions of people are not part of those conversations.

• Because of the internet there it no need for libraries today.

• A generation ago, if you wanted to share an opinion with the public, you wrote a letter to the newspaper and hoped they would publish it. There was no other way for a stranger to hear your story or your perspective.

• The internet has changed how we communicate.

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Check all the benefits of the new way we communicate on the web.

• We can talk across time and space.

• We can connect across geographical and political boundaries.

• We can create organizations and communities.

• We can find people with similar interests.

• We can lift people up when they feel alone.

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Which is NOT a danger of how we communicate on the web.

• Misinformation -- unintentionally incorrect information -- and disinformation -- information that’s wrong on purpose -- spread quickly online.

• Hate speech and propaganda spread quickly online.

• Too much information makes informed decision making impossible.

• We can easily create online worlds where we only see information we already agree with, or that lines up with our point of view.

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Because we use information for all kinds of decisions, misinformation and disinformation are powerful.

• True

• False

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The quality of our (a)   directly shapes the quality of our decisions.

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Whose job is it to evaluate the information that we receive, find out where it falls on the spectrum, and decide how to use it going forward?

• Your teacher's and/or parent's

• Fact-checkers'

• The government's

• Website creator's

• Ours

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Check the effective ways to evaluate the reliability of a website.

• The presence of charts and infographics

• The website's look and feel--such as the URL or the About Page

• The presence of statistics and anecdotes.

• the layout, how much content the site has, and whether it is linked to other sites.

• none of these are reliable ways to evaluate the reliability of a website

According to John Green, which of these questions is most helpful?

• Is the internet a net positive or a net negative in our lives?

• How can I make the Internet a more positive force in my life, and the lives of others?”

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Better (a)   leads to better decision making, which leads to a better world.

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