First we are going to watch a video about the North American House Hippo… When this video started, for a moment did you believe that this could be real or did you know immediately that it was not? What were some of the reasons you did or didn’t believe it? How could we be sure? … Continue reading House Hippos and Cabbits
Here is a picture that’s been floating around online. It is a photo of a Sea-Rex. What is your first reaction when you see this picture? Do you think it’s real or fake? Why? What are some of the reasons you think people might post a photo like this online? This is actually a photoshopped … Continue reading Seeing Should Not Always Mean Believing… Especially Online!
“Don’t believe everything you read” parents often scold their kids, and we are giving them the skills to do exactly that! Grade 2 came for a visit to learn about how to use critical thinking and the 5 W’s (who, what, when, where and why) when evaluating if information on a website is credible or … Continue reading You’re Never Too Young to Start Thinking Critically
The library has kicked off this year’s middle school research skills workshop series with a lesson on credible websites vs. non-credible websites and identifying fake news. The students were asked to be detectives and jot down some of the ways you can identify which sites and articles are real and which are fakes. Developing critical … Continue reading Information Credibility