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Fact Checking & Knowing Your News: How-to Videos

Includes: resources on deciphering between truth, "Fake news", and alternative facts. Social media and digital information has made real news something we have to find out ourselves, and not just accept at face-value. Tips on how to become "media literate

Types of Expertise & checking it on Google

 "Expertise.” YouTube, uploaded by d'Alzon Library, 18 June 2019, https://youtu.be/yU9JELSQGfU. 4:40 minutes

Verifying Photos & Videos

 "Evaluating Photos & Videos: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #7.” YouTube, uploaded by d'Alzon Library, 18 June 2019, https://youtu.be/p7uvqb8fcdA. 13:18 minutes, can skip to 6:00 for an example.

Lateral Reading

 "Check yourself with lateral reading:Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3” YouTube, uploaded by d'Alzon Library, 18 June 2019, https://youtu.be/GoQG6Tin-1E. 13:51 minutes

Follow information back to the original source

Reading Data & Understanding Algorithms

 "Future Literacies: Crash Course Media Literacy #12” YouTube, uploaded by d'Alzon Library, 18 June 2019, https://youtu.be/Q_aXzpeam0s. 7:37 minutes