Navigating Digital Information

According to the video, what is one positive aspect of the internet?

• Meeting friends from around the world

• Accidentally liking old Instagram posts

• Being tagged in detailed Facebook posts

• Having your mother share embarrassing stories

What is the better question to ask about the internet, according to the video?

• Is the internet a net positive or a net negative?

• How can I make the internet a more positive force?

• Should we trust information found on the internet?

• Is the internet a reliable source of information?

What did the Stanford study find about evaluating website credibility?

• Professors and students were better at judging credibility than fact-checkers

• Focusing on website design is the best way to determine credibility

• Fact-checkers were the most reliable at judging website credibility

• The American Academy of Pediatrics is less credible than the American College of Pediatricians

What are the three questions that fact-checkers consistently ask themselves?

• Who is behind this information? What is the evidence? What do others say?

• Who is sharing this information? What is the claim? What is the evidence?

• Who is behind this information? What is the evidence? What is the claim?

• Who is sharing this information? What is the evidence? What do others say?

What is the first step in evaluating information according to the text?

• Identifying the claims being made

• Checking the evidence provided

• Determining who is sharing the information

• Researching what others say about the claim

Why is it important to check multiple sources when fact-checking?

• To find evidence that supports your pre-existing worldview

• To ensure the information aligns with your personal beliefs

• To verify the accuracy of the claim

• To challenge the credibility of trustworthy sources

What is the danger of being overly cynical about information?

• It can lead to a lack of critical thinking

• It can cause skepticism to become a negative trait

• It can result in trusting misinformation

• It can prevent fact-checking from occurring

What is the main goal of MediaWise?

• To teach students how to assess the accuracy of information

• To promote the use of social media for news consumption

• To support fact-checkers in their work

• To create a non-profit journalism school

What is the recommended approach to navigating the internet, according to the text?

• Believe everything you read

• Distrust everything you read

• Quickly share interesting information without fact-checking

• Interrogate and fact-check the information encountered

Why is it important to train our information analyzing muscles?

• To become more skeptical of widely believed information

• To develop a habit of fact-checking everything

• To challenge the credibility of trusted sources

• To strengthen critical thinking and judgement