As teachers and educators it behaves us to raise our students critical awareness to this informational dilemma. We need to make sure they are equipped with the required skills to help them navigate and browse the web in a safe and productive way. One way to do this is through enhancing their critical digital search literacy. We have already covered a number of interesting materials in this regard and you can check this resource to discover some practical search tips to share with your students.
However, knowing how to run an effective online search is only the starting point. Students also need to learn how to evaluate the content they find online and this is where critical reading comes into the picture. Critical reading, according to OWLL, is "the process of reading that goes beyond just understanding a text. Critical reading involves: carefully considering and evaluating the reading. identifying the reading's strengths and implications. identifying the reading's weaknesses and flaws". During our work on Media Literacy article we came up with a list based on Mills (1995, p. 199) and Duncan's (2005) insights comprising a number of questions to guide students critical reading. We embedded these questions into the visual below which you can download for free from this page. Check it out and share with us your feedback in our Facebook page.
References:
Duncan, B. (2005). Media literacy: Essential survival skills for the new millennium. Retrieved from https://goo.gl/pMgQ2Z
Mills. S. (1995). Feminist stylistics. New York, NY: Routledge.
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