There are an abundance of digital literacy guides that provide links to trusted sources and a familiar litany of precautions to guard oneself against blind acceptances of questionable information from dubious sources.
Yawn.
It’s another platitude. Another capitulation. Another missed opportunity in the battle to bring critical thinking skills to searching the web and interpreting search results.
Without them, we’re searching in silence. More to the point, we’re escorted to results that answer to search engine advertisers, not to the who, what, when, where, and why of our investigations.
Reference books tell you what’s out there — at the moment they’re published. Literacy courses carry a longer shelf life. But they lean towards static, often outdated collection methods and vetting practices.
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Source Fluency: Gateway to Hitting-the-Ground Learning Unit Four: Sense-making — How to focus on information context, including misinformation |