Information Literacy

Why the data source matters

Teacher: Elizabeth Dolinger
Course:  Many.
This lesson helps students learn to evaluate the usefulness and reliability of information and sources.  It starts with a very funny Colbert report video about an information graphic in USA today:

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Directions
Working in teams, students analyze a news report [...]

Tags: data, Elizabeth Dolinger, IQL, statistics
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