We’ve all done it. We see an attention-grabbing headline, and before we know it, we have clicked or tapped and opened a link to something we thought we would enjoy. Instead, we find ourselves reading a mediocre article or watching a less-than-average video. This happened to me recently, and I’m more than willing to admitContinueContinue reading “Research Skills 101: Clickbait – It Happens to the Best of Us”
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Research Skills 101: What in the World Is an Echo Chamber? (And Are You Living in One?)
Echo chamber is a fairly new term, and I had to look for a definition the first time I heard it a few years back. Look at it this way, an echo is a sound that comes back to you and thereby repeats itself until it dies out. An echo chamber is when you areContinueContinue reading “Research Skills 101: What in the World Is an Echo Chamber? (And Are You Living in One?)”
Research Skills 101: How to Identify Accurate Information Online
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how to identify a legitimate website, but how do you know if what someone has written is accurate? How do you tell if they are dealing in fact or opinion because they want to persuade you to their side? Let’s do a dive today on sorting outContinueContinue reading “Research Skills 101: How to Identify Accurate Information Online”
Research Skills 101: How to Identify Legitimate Sites
We’ve all done it. We’ve all searched for something online and clicked the first thing to pop up only to find ourselves staring at ads, pop-ups, a non-working website, the completely wrong thing, or something that looks almost right but it isn’t. I have been right next to people who do an online search andContinueContinue reading “Research Skills 101: How to Identify Legitimate Sites”
Research Skills 101: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Why They Matter
There’s a lot going on in our country right now, and it has been that way for the last several years. I don’t know about you, but some mornings I wake up, turn on the news, and feel like I’ve suffered mental whiplash after only five minutes. This is one of the reasons I wantContinueContinue reading “Research Skills 101: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Why They Matter”
All Things Subject to Change 