Searching Out Loud doesn’t swear by sources. It speaks to source fluency. That’s the ability to assemble authoritative sources on the fly — even as we’re wading into unfamiliar research territory.
Like literacy programs, Speaking Out Loud addresses the analysis and interpretation of the findings we gather. Which of those gatherings are to be believed? We’ll never know without aiming our perspective-taking at the self-interest of the information provider. It’s a point often overshadowed by the harsh camera lights of a high profile investigation.
Another dynamic of our post social and search media world is that providers now change as rapidly as the news. All news sources are now just one broken link removed from losing their authority as the go-to source on the news they cover. One of the truly sobering reflections of writing a book over the span of a decade were the number of media properties lining the burial plots of defunct search engines and discontinued news services.
That’s why source fluency is a high impact Knowledge-ABILITY and a critical factor in fluid, unfolding investigations.
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Unit Three: Sourcing | How to evaluate information quality and source information that instructs |