During this session, we will share an evaluation tool educators can use with students in Grades 4-12 to encourage critical thinking about online authors/creators, sources, and evidence.
With content generated by AI, dis-information, audio and video augmentation, social media, and more, how do we guide and support students to evaluate information and identify credible sources? Today, students are challenged to think before they share, gather evidence from multiple sources, and often consider diverse or multiple perspectives. This work requires critical thinking, lateral searching, and effective search strategies with library resources and online searches. In this session, we will share a tool we created, and use, to help students evaluate diverse content, identify credible authors and creators, and use reliable sources. This comprehensive tool can be scaffolded to meet curriculum goals, to support academic needs of students, or by research projects. Now, we encourage students to “TRAP” high-quality research material. Geared towards educators in grades 4-12.
