This activity helps students evaluate their own authority on a particular subject so that they can begin to understand how authority is created and effectively evaluate the authority of other sources they encounter. Additional evaluation criteria is also introduced.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
This activity asks students to evaluate multiple sources in order to become more critical consumers of information. *Note: This is a flipped classroom activity. You will need to provide students with four source types that students will evaluate as homework.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
Students will create evaluation criteria that they can use to determine the quality of a source.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
A faculty toolkit covering the teaching of fake news. Includes an OER textbook, website links to Factcheck.org, Snopes, and Politifact, and a video from the organization Learning for Justice.
Material Type: Reference, Textbook
Use research techniques to find clues and corroborating evidence to verify images, videos, and information, and avoid amplifying fabricated news and propaganda.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This tutorial shows you how to avoid the serious academic offense of plagiarism.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson, Student Guide
This activity helps students recognize scholarship as a type of discourse that is distinguished by a unique set of conventions/modes of behaving. It also reveals they are learning how to participate in this conversation and recognize why citation is an important convention of scholarship.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
A reference for current copyright law. Covers copyright materials, film music & digital media, CC/Open Access, Fair Use & current issues.
Material Type: Reference
Navigating York College Library's OneSearch basic search.
Material Type: Tutorial
A video explaining OneSearch.
Material Type: Tutorial
Navigating York College Library's OneSearch advanced search.
Material Type: Tutorial
Tips and tools for advanced newsgathering on the web.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Learn the best techniques for clip searching – using commercial databases to search for news articles about your story or topic.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson assumes a “flipped” classroom scenario. Students do a search activity as homework in order to participate in a class discussion/activity. Use this lesson when you are helping students learn how to distinguish between resources in order to select sources for their research.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
Tutorial on finding e-books in OneSearch.
Material Type: Student Guide, Tutorial
Recording of 6/8/20 workshop intended to help scholars locate e-book equivalents of physical books we can't currently access. Info is applicable to any search for online books using Graduate Center resources.
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