Evaluating data, information and digital content

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Practitioners should be able:

  • to analyse, compare and critically evaluate the credibility and reliability of sources of data, information and digital content

  • to analyse, interpret and critically evaluate the data, information and digital content and the impact of algorithms/systems on this.

Support and examples

‘Maddie is Online’: a creative learning path to ethics of online safety and security for young people is a resource created by Robert Gordons University illustrating ethics of online safety and security for young people

Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information Use these strategies to help students identify relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability in the content they read

Digital Citizenship Curriculum Use digital citizenship lesson plans from Common Sense Education to address timely topics and prepare students to take ownership of their digital live

How fake news hijacks your brain Short video about fakenews from BBC BiteSize

How algorithms and filter bubbles decide what we see on social media Short video about how o algorithms populate our social media feeds from BBC BiteSize

Teaching Media Literacy A resource from reboot focussing on how we can help learners and ourselves navigate misinformation

Digital misinformation / disinformation and children A short read from Unicef “Misinformation is false or misleading information that is unwittingly shared, while disinformation is deliberately created and distributed with an intent to deceive or harm. Together they range from satire and parody, to dangerous conspiracy theories. Here are 10 things you need to know about how they affect children”

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