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Relevant Articles

Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole
By Charlie Warzel via The New York Times
From Digital Native to Digital Expert
Via Harvard Graduate School of Education
How Your Brain Tricks You Into Believing Fake News
Via Time
Lateral reading: College students learn to critically evaluate internet sources in an online course
Via Harvard Kennedy School
Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds
Via the Wall Street Journal
SHEG Evaluating Information Online: Summary of findings
What's at Stake? Our Democracy is at Risk
By Sam Wineburg, founder and faculty director of the Stanford History Education Group

Relevant Videos

COR Student Videos
Link features all of the Crash Course videos about navigating and evaluating information.
Crash Course Video #1: Introduction to Navigating Digital Information
Crash Course Video #2: The Facts About Fact Checking
Crash Course Video #3: Check Yourself with Lateral Reading
Crash Course Video #4: Who Can You Trust?
Crash Course Video #5: Using Wikipedia
Crash Course Video #6: Evaluating Evidence
Crash Course Video #7: Evaluating Photos & Videos
Crash Course Video #8: Data & Infographics
Crash Course Video #9: Click Restraint
Crash Course Video #10: Social Media