Name: Using Wikipedia: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #5
Uploaded: 2022-03-18 00:00:00
Duration: 14 min 2 s
Description: Let's talk about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often maligned by teachers and Twitter trolls alike as an unreliable source. And yes, it does sometimes have major errors and omissions, but Wikipedia is also the Internet's largest general reference work and as such an incredibly powerful tool.

In which John Green previews the new Crash Course on Navigating Digital Information!

We love the internet! It's a wealth of information where we can learn about just about anything, but it's also kind of a pit of information that can be false or misleading.

Introduction to Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #1

This time, John Green is teaching you how to fact-check like the pros. We're going to walk through the steps that professionals follow, including figuring out who is behind the information we read, why they're sharing that information, and what kind of evidence exists to back up the claim.

The Facts about Fact Checking: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #2

Look to your left. Look to your right. Look at this video. Today, John Green is going to teach you how to read laterally, using multiple tabs in your browser to look stuff up and fact check as you read. Real-time fact-checking can help you figure out what's real and what's not on the internet.

Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3

In which John Green teaches you how to assess the sources of information you find on the internet. The growing suspicion of expertise is a growing problem on the internet, and it can be very difficult to figure out which sources are authoritative.

Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4

Let's talk about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often maligned by teachers and Twitter trolls alike as an unreliable source. And yes, it does sometimes have major errors and omissions, but Wikipedia is also the Internet's largest general reference work and as such an incredibly powerful tool.

Using Wikipedia: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #5

Today we?re going to focus on how to tell good evidence from bad evidence and maybe importantly, how to identify ?Fine, but that doesn?t actually prove your point? evidence - the stuff that the Internet is built on.

Evaluating Evidence: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #6

With the amount of fake and doctored photos and videos out there, how can we know what to trust?

Evaluating Photos & Videos: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #7

Today, we're going to discuss how numbers, like statistics, and visual representations like charts and infographics can be used to help us better understand the world or profoundly deceive.

Data & Infographics: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #8

The architecture of the social internet itself tells us not to be patient - to load more tweets, to hit refresh for new posts, and to click the top search results.

Click Restraint: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #9

Today, in our series finale, we're going to talk about the great white whale of navigating online information: your social media feed. Social media shapes both our online and offline behaviors from how we engage in communities and consume goods and services to influencing our thoughts and opinions.