Showing posts with label evaluation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evaluation. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Fifth BadApple Challenge and Scoring

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  Just added: a fifth Challenge to our new Bad Apple investigation game. This one tests individual skills using a current controversy in the...
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Monday, October 18, 2021

A Fourth BAD APPLE Challenge

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Just added, another BAD APPLE Challenge: Challenge 4: North Shore Whale Watching   Here's a trustworthy tourism site with a section on w...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Two New BAD APPLE Challenges

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 Two new BAD APPLE Challenges have just been added to our Website: Challenge 2: All About Explorers Challenge 3: CBS News Hoax Sites   Both ...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Bad Apples

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  Introducing the (re)release of Bad Apples, a series of do-it-yourself evaluation tutorials. With the demise of Adobe Flash, a lot of inter...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Evaluation Tutorials

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For a limited time, try our Evaluation Challenges without a subscription! Evaluation Challenges focus on three key aspects of evaluating di...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Finding an (elusive) Author's name

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  One of the most popular (visited) pages on 21cif.com is our collection of Citation Wizards. Each wizard (MLA, APA, Harvard, etc.) indicate...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Implicit Bias

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  If you think you aren't biased, you're mistaken. Everyone who has personal preferences or a sense of right vs wrong is biased.  Bi...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Author Detective

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Introducing the third revision in our series of Investigative Searching tutorials: AUTHOR. No need to rely on the old Flash files any lo...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Publisher Detective

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Just released: Publisher Detective Try it for free for a limited time. Nine exercises to help searchers track down and evaluate publish...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Evaluating the Publisher Preview

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Here's a free preview of the Evaluate the Publisher tutorial that is part of the WSI (Website Investigator) package. If you can...
Friday, August 31, 2018

Evaluation Method: Authorship

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Other than the personal sniff test , which can be tainted by subjectivity, savvy searchers have other means at their disposal to determine...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Personal Filters

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On the 21st Century Information Fluency page last month, I posted this question: What do you do to determine if news is fake? Share a ti...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Do You Skim?

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Most of us skim to get the basic meaning without reading every word. This may work well when trying to spot keywords in articles or Web pa...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Hard Conversations

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Have you noticed if your students rely on alt-right internet sites as credible sources for their research papers? In a survey of 200 te...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Summer Full Circle Resource Kit

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Bias Detection is the newest Kit in the Full Circle series . One of the most popular MicroModules on the Information Fluency site is Bia...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Spring 18 Full Circle Kit now available

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The newest edition of the 21st Century Information Fluency Full Circle Kit focuses on Fact Checking. This is part three of three in a se...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Facts Matter

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I recently updated a 21cif MicroModule on Evidence that got me thinking about recent elections in the US. What role did facts actually pla...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Fallacies

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Fallacies (mistaken beliefs based on an unsound argument ) appear in many forms, as the author of pearls and elephants recently posted: ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Crap Detection 101

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Amateur Whale Research Kit? Howard Rheingold is credited with Crap Detection 101: How to tell accurate information from inaccurate info...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Re-release of Author Tutorial

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Another refreshed tutorial is now available on 21cif:  Author Author is the first in our series of Evaluation tutorials. Earlier last...