LibGuides: Middle/Senior School: Evaluating Information

This 6 minute YouTube video published by Libncsu explains what Wikipedia is, how Wikis are created and what you need to remember when reading information on Wikipedia.

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Media Watch (ABC TV)
Media Watch is an Australian TV show that analyses news reports and exposes them when they are unreliable or untrue. Media Watch is on ABC on Monday nights 9:20pm and repeated on Tuesday mornings 10:45am and is rated PG.

This 3 minute YouTube video by the University of South Australia explains how you can use the C.R.A.A.P test to evaluate information from books, articles and websites.

Test to evaluate a website
This library guide was created by FD Blueford Library, North Carolina A&T State University and explains how you can use the C.R.A.A.P test to evaluate a website. Evaluation is important to ensure you are using authoritative and reliable sources.

A reminder 'Fake News' is an Information Literacy Problem not a Technology Problem
Today we are faced with a huge amount of information online. But what's real and what's fake? This article by Forbes explores the idea that fake news is an information literacy problem not a technology problem.

Image: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/07/07/a-reminder-that-fake-news-is-an-information-literacy-problem-not-a-technology-problem/?sh=60935c5d6a6f