Assignment
Who Can I Trust? – Questions to Ask When Evaluating Information Sources (featuring SIFT, PIE, and SMELL methods)
Short Description:
This lesson is intended as a one hour, single-session overview of one aspect of information literacy: evaluating the trustworthiness of resources, particularly online. The lesson is designed for a group of 10-25 adults in a public or academic library, or is also suitable for high school students. Instructor will teach students how to investigate a source and apply three small but powerful information literacy tools to evaluation: SIFT, PIE, and SMELL.
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 Information Literacy Lesson Plan with Appendix.pdfdisplayed 2712 times | 263.93 KB |
| IL Lesson Plan Appendix (separate).pdfdisplayed 1363 times | 163.28 KB |
 Information Literacy Lesson Plan.docxdisplayed 744 times | 56.03 KB |
Learning Outcomes:
- The student will be able to distinguish between standard evaluative criteria and apply appropriate criteria to an information source to determine its quality and relevance.
- The student will be able to detect misinformation and defend the credibility of a source by using relevant evaluative criteria and verifying claims externally.
- Students will be able to locate a variety of sources about a topic and discern which would be most useful in fulfilling their information need.
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Suggested Citation:
Kiczenski, Keely. "Who Can I Trust? – Questions to Ask When Evaluating Information Sources (featuring SIFT, PIE, and SMELL methods)." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2020. https://projectcora.org/assignment/who-can-i-trust-%E2%80%93-questions-ask-when-evaluating-information-sources-featuring-sift-pie.
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