The best way to understand a website is (drumroll, please) ... to leave the website? Scholars make sense of some strange advice by watching part four in the Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information set. As they watch, they learn strategies for finding credible Internet sources. Pupils also learn how to consider a source's authority and perspective to assess its reliability. 

Concepts

Media Literacy, information literacy, Digital Citizenship

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Additional Tags

classroom support

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Instructional Ideas

• Ask individuals to write a paragraph or essay about how to assess an Internet source's credibility 
• Challenge students to develop a checklist for determining a website's reliability 

Classroom Considerations

• Requires a projector and speakers 

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Narrator uses humor to engage audience
• Provides specific examples from the Internet to drive home key points

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.2 SL.9-10.3 SL.11-12.2 SL.11-12.3