by LIS101 | Jul 25, 2019 | libguides, Research Skills, working with sources |
About this Hearing US Special Counsel Robert Mueller is testifying on Wednesday before two congressional committees about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice by...
by LIS101 | Jun 26, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Authority Defining Different Kinds of Authority What to Look for in Sources A Usable Source Rubric with Caveats Bias and Evaluation http://lis101.com/fake-news-bias-framed-news-false-balance…/ Problems with Online Research Module 5: Information...
by LIS101 | Jun 26, 2019 | Assignments, Uncategorized |
Introduction You are writing a paper on the efficacy of vaccines and want to explore possible links between vaccination and autism. Look through the linked sources and decide which ones you will use. Learning Objectives Critically evaluate information. Task The Team...
by LIS101 | Jun 4, 2019 | Advocacy, Blogs, global warming, Interviews, lecture notes, libguides, Readings, video content, Video Content and Multimedia |
This overview begins by talking about the political spectrum in the US and then describes the various biases of different news outlets. Attention is paid to different expressions and types of bias. After the relationship between politics and mass media is more fully...
by LIS101 | Apr 26, 2019 | Readings |
Posted first (and graciously shared by!) Napa Valley College Library Research in the sciences generally involves recognizing a scientific problem to be solved, setting up an experiment designed to yield useful data, and interpreting the data in the context of other...
by LIS101 | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorized |
In understanding the complicated media and political landscape in any policy debate, it is important to understand the competing sides of the debate as well as the biases of the policy experts that politicians consult to inform or justify their decisions. It is useful...
by LIS101 | Apr 7, 2019 | global warming, information malpractice, Readings, Research Skills, rubrics, Webpages, working with sources |
Posted on 27 November 2011 by John Cook at skepticalscience.com The Debunking Handbook, a guide to debunking misinformation, is now freely available to download. Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there’s no summary of...
by LIS101 | Mar 22, 2019 | Uncategorized |
The scientific method is essentially the formal process that scientists follow to advance understanding. It goes like this: Ask a Question Do Background Research Construct a Hypothesis Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment Analyze Your Data and Draw a...
by LIS101 | Mar 19, 2019 | video content |
Feb 2, 2015 7:50 PM EDT A measles outbreak has reached 14 states and infected more than 100 people. The disease had been considered eradicated in the U.S., but parents’ skepticism about the safety and usefulness of vaccines in recent years has made room for measles to...
by LIS101 | Mar 5, 2019 | Assignments, Lesson Plans, working with sources |
By: Sara Stigberg and Katelin Karlin Librarians, Harold Washington College Chicago, IL Background Shawn claims to have no memory of stabbing his father. His mother describes waking up to her husband screaming; his father remembers being unable to identify his...
by LIS101 | Mar 1, 2019 | Boolean operators, Keywords, libguides, Research Skills, Search Tools |
Having trouble turning your research question into keywords? Not sure how to use Boolean operators to connect your keywords in the most effective way? This excellent tool at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Library is exactly what you need to...
by LIS101 | Mar 1, 2019 | Lesson Plans, libguides |
JUNE 17, 2013 / JENNIFERESTEELE A common topic many college students need instruction on to aid in their information literacy skills is the concept of Boolean operators. The following is a lesson plan I thought would be a fun way to introduce the topic to a...
by LIS101 | Feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Klein ISD administrators issued a statement Tuesday detailing how students in a digital citizenship curriculum course were tasked with creating a false story in order to show the effect “fake news” has through online media. A screenshot of one...
by LIS101 | Feb 8, 2019 | Readings, Webpages, Wiki |
A quick Google search will return many hits imploring that Wikipedia is as accurate as any traditional encyclopedia. Nature first compared Wikipedia to Encyclopedia Britannica in 2005 and found the two sources comparably reliable. Other sources disagree and state...
by LIS101 | Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Librarians are natural allies when dealing with misinformation and disinformation, and recent changes in the field have pushed us to take a much more prominent role in education. by Todd Heldt Among academic librarians the phrase “information literacy” has undergone a...
by LIS101 | Dec 23, 2018 | Uncategorized |
21 December 2018 German news weekly Der Spiegel publishes on Saturday a 23-page special report on how one of its award-winning reporters faked stories for years, dealing a blow to media credibility. Claas Relotius, 33, resigned after admitting to making up stories and...
by LIS101 | Nov 8, 2018 | Articles, video content |
The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is accused of sharing a misleading video of CNN’s Jim Acosta from the conspiracy-theory website Infowars. A White House intern tried to take the microphone from Acosta during a heated exchange between the...
by LIS101 | Nov 3, 2018 | Readings |
By Caroline Haskins Nov 1 2018, 11:19pm A report released this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative reveals that the removal of climate change information from the EPA website is set to be a long-term policy of the Trump administration (Read...
by LIS101 | Nov 2, 2018 | Articles |
USA TODAY followed the rapid spread of a social media conspiracy theory about George Soros and migrants that grew from obscurity to the political mainstream. BY: Brad Heath, Matt Wynn and Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY 2:27 p.m. CDT Oct. 31, 2018 This is the life of...
by LIS101 | Oct 23, 2018 | Readings |
By: TIM MAK With midterm elections just two weeks away, Facebook says it is ramping up its operations to fight disinformation. The social media behemoth has established a “war room” at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., where specialists try to detect...