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Subject Guide: How to find reliable and trustworthy sources of information.
This video teaches about the concept of "attention conservation" and addresses the importance of verifying online sources of information.
Learn about the five questions you should ask about online sources of information. These questions will help you to decide if you can trust the source or if you should stay away from it. Use this worksheet to help you answer the five questions for any online source of information: 5 Questions to Ask About Media-Student
Students can begin learning how to find and evaluate information sources at home. This article has tips for parents on how they can teach and incorporate these skills into their children's lives.
This lesson from checkology.com will teach you the basics of reading laterally, a technique you can use to evaluate the reliability of an online source.
RAND's Truth Decay Initiative has wealth of information and resources to help you recognize and utilize factual information and avoid sources that manipulate, misquote, or even lie about a wide range of topics.
Misinformation is when someone shares or spreads information that isn't true, often without realizing it isn't true because they didn't check the source. This document from RumorGuard will help you identify five types of misinformation.
This is a helpful resource from the News Literacy Project that will teach you how to determine if an information source is a legitimate news source or not. You can also print out this infographic: It is Legit? infographic
This Crash Course 12-part video series will introduce you to the topic of media literacy, the history of media literacy, and media literacy skills.
This resource from PBS focuses on how to recognize and keep from spreading scientific misinformation.
Wikipedia is often considered an unreliable source of information, but this video from PBS will help you determine if a Wikipedia article is legitimate and safe to use.
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