Trust

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=Who(m) Do We Trust? [|1] [|2] [|3]=

We live in a world that has a flood of information resources. How do we decide which information is true? How do we sort out what is most reliable? Let's look at some handy tools and ideas that help to make sense of it all.

= Essential Question: "How do you know information is true?" =

~ Dennis Harter and Justin Medved at Curriculum 2.0 Wiki

**Hands-on Trust Activities**

 * Trust Walk
 * Trust Fall

**Hoaxes or Not?**

 * [|"Buy Dehydrated Water"]
 * [|Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division]
 * [|California's Velcro Crop under Challenge]
 * [|Ruritania]
 * [|Lip Balm Addiction]
 * [|Other Hoax Sites]


 * [|Hoax Test]
 * [|Gullibility Test]
 * [|The End of the Internet]

Credibility

 * [|"Martin Luther King"]
 * [|WhoIs] (Ownership)
 * [|Wayback Machine: Internet Archive] (History)
 * [|Hoax Slayer] (Review)
 * [|Fact Check]
 * [|Snopes]
 * [|Politifact]
 * Teaching Zack to Think

**Scientific Method**

 * [|Simple Wikipedia on Scientific Method]
 * [|Scientific Method for Kids]

**Expert Source (Authoritative)**

 * [|MARVEL - Maine's Virtual Library]

**Democratic Approach - Reputation**

 * [|Wikipedia]
 * [|eBay]

**Point of View: Perspective**

 * Optical Illusions

More Evaluating Information Resources (feel free to add to the list)
= **So what is a person to do?** =

~ President Ronald Reagan

 * == Authoritative & Democratic ==
 * == Check source ==
 * == **Check Multiple sources** ==
 * == "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is" . . . look closer before leaping. Don't Jump. ==

Debrief
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** ISTE NETS: **
 * || * ** Evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of electronic information sources. **

Maine Learning Results:


 * ** Evaluate information for accuracy, currency, and possible bias. **
 * ** Distinguish between facts encountered in documents, narratives, and other sources and the generalizations or interpretations a person draws concerning those facts. **

[|Trust Quotes] [|Trust Quotes 2]

From [|Center for Media Literacy]:

CML’s Five Key Questions Deconstruction

1. Who created this message?

2. What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?

3. How might different people understand this message differently?

4. What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?

5. Why is this message being sent?

CML’s Five Core Concepts 1. All media messages are constructed.

2. Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules.

3. Different people experience the same media message differently.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular;">4. Media have embedded values and points of view.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular;">5. Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular;">power. ||