Teaching Students How to Identify Credible Sources
ByTrevor Muir
edutopia.org
4min
April 20, 2023
Teachers can guide students toward a clear understanding of the factors that make a particular source of information reliable or not.
Growing up in the early 1990s, I caught the tail end of the age of encyclopedias. If my teacher gave me a research assignment on the causes of the Cold War, I’d pull volume C off the shelf, flip through the index to find the right page, and read through pages of small-font text until I found my answers. Because theEncyclopedia Britannicaemployed a team of full-time editors, the information I sifted through could largely be trusted.
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