Research Unit

Are you writing a research paper? If so, it's really important to find reliable sources to reference! Watch this video to learn how to choose the most reliable sources to use in your paper.

We love the internet! It's a wealth of information where we can learn about just about anything, but it's also kind of a pit of information that can be false or misleading. So, Let's learn the facts about facts!

We're going to walk through the steps that professionals follow, including figuring out who is behind the information we read, why they're sharing that information, and what kind of evidence exists to back up the claim.

John Green is going to teach you how to read laterally, using multiple tabs in your browser to look stuff up and fact check as you read. Real-time fact-checking an help you figure out what's real and what's not on the internet.

John Green teaches you how to assess the sources of information you find on the internet. John offers some strategies to help you identify credible sources and take into account a source's point of view.

Wikipedia is often maligned by teachers and twitter trolls alike as an unreliable source. While it does sometimes have major errors and omissions, it's also the Internet's largest general reference work and as such an incredibly powerful tool.

Today we’re going to focus on how to tell good evidence from bad evidence and maybe importantly, how to identify “Fine, but that doesn’t actually prove your point” evidence - the stuff that the Internet is built on.

With the amount of fake and doctored photos and videos out there, how can we know what to trust?

Data is a really powerful form of evidence because it can be absorbed quickly and easily, but neither data, nor interpretations of it, are neutral. We're going to discuss how to think critically about the statistics we encounter in everyday life.

Just because information is new, or algorithmically determined to be most relevant to you, doesn't necessarily mean it's the best or most accurate. So we're going to teach you some tips to exercise a little more click restraint on the Internet.

ocial media shapes both our online and offline behaviors from how we engage in communities and consume goods and services to influencing our thoughts and opinions. So let's talk about how they really function - the good stuff and also the terrible.