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WorksheetsNavigating Digital Information: Review of all Ten Videos
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 14mins
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because we use information for all kinds of decisions, misinformation and disinformation are powerful.
True
False
The quality of our (a) directly shapes the quality of our decisions.
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
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?”
Better (a) leads to better decision making, which leads to a better world.
What does it mean to read "vertically".
Chinese people read vertically because their characters are read up and down rather than from left to right or right to left.
Reading vertically is checking other sources to see if a website is reliable.
It describes the way we tend to read webpages: 04:30
we start at the top of the page, look at the title, and scroll down from there.
Reading vertically is looking at the sources a website uses to support their claim to evaluate if the website is reliable.
Lateral reading is when. . .
When you open a new tab or window to listen to music while reading.
You read a book or website from left to right or right to left.
When you open a new tab or window to look for more information about a source.
When you only look at once source of information.
Whenever you open an app or a website, you see information and content that was made somewhere by someone. With lateral reading -- or, leaving a site to find out what others say about it -- you can learn who that someone or group of someones is. Before putting your trust in a source, you need to explore two more things. What are they?
the number of followers the person or group has on social media
the authority of the person or organization presenting the information
the person's or organization's financial records
the perspective of the person or organization presenting the information
Check the factors you should consider when investigating a source's authority.
the systems that are in place to catch mistakes and correct them
the author or authors’ professional background
the process the author or authors used to produce that information
the author's or authors' medical records
Which is another question we should ask ourselves when evaluating information?
Is this information exciting?
What is the evidence?
Does this information help prove my point?
Does this information fit in with my world view?
Why is it important to ask yourself what evidence is provided to support a claim?
Evidence is needed to solve crimes.
The credibility of a claim depends on the evidence provided to back it up.
The credibility of a claim in entirely dependent on the quantity of the information.
The credibility of a claim in entirely dependent on the quality of the information.
What is irrelevant evidence?
It's evidence that we find offensive.
It is evidence that people say to support their claims, but it really about something else.
It is evidence that is made up.
It is evidence that had been disproven by later scientific developments.
A spurious correlation is
a correlation that is offensive to the reader.
the implied causal relationship between events that are coincidentally linked.
a correlation made up on the spur of a moment.
when an event is caused by another event.
These days it is easy to upload fake videos, what are important things before you believe what you see?
Where a video came from.
Who created it.
Whether its been altered.
What type of camera was used to take it.
Select all the true statements.
Since statistics are numbers, they cannot cannot be biased, manipulated, or otherwise misrepresented.
Whenever we come across data, we should ask ourselves two questions: Does this data actually support the claim being made? And is the source of this data reliable?
Visual representations such as graphs and charts can be manipulated so that they technically represent that truth yet do so in a way that is biased or misleading.
We should practice lateral reading when dealing with data and visual representation of data.
Check all the true statements.
Click restraint is the practice of resisting the urge to click on the first results you see and instead scanning results to check out your options to get a sense of what sources are available, what information is on offer, and then, based on what you're looking for, making informed decisions about which websites to visit first, rather than just clicking on the first thing you see.
The most useful results are always near the top of the search results page.
Google returns results based on (1) How relevant it thinks a page will be to what you searched for and (2) The quality of the site, based on Google’s own definition of quality.
If you put quotation marks around the phrase you’re searching for, the search engine will look for those words in that order only.
Select all the true statements.
Social media sites use what they know about you to show you content they think you are most likely to engage with while leaving out content they think you will ignore.
Social media sites offer their services for free because they make their money by showing you advertisements.
There is nothing you can do to limit the extent to which social media sites can track you except avoiding using them altogether.
Social media can learn your interests and habits based on how you use their app, but they also track you elsewhere -- via other apps associated with that company, or by using geolocation features to figure out where you physically are.
A spurious correlation is __________.
a correlation that is offensive to the reader.
the implied causal relationship between events that are coincidentally linked.
a correlation made up on the spur of a moment.
when an event is caused by another event.
