How Do We Know What to Trust? Strategies to evaluate digital content. Virtual Presentation

PRESENTER: Assistant Professor Sarah McGrew of the College of Education at University of Maryland.  SUMMARY: Information floods our phones, tablets, and laptops, and we increasingly rely on that information to learn about the world. Yet evidence suggests that many of us struggle to evaluate digital content, a problem that leaves us less prepared to make decisions–both personal and political–that are grounded in high-quality information. Luckily, there are stronger strategies for evaluating online information that we can teach and learn to use well. In this presentation, she will review how people typically evaluate online information, present powerful, effective evaluation strategies gleaned from research with professional fact-checkers, and demonstrate those strategies in action.