Evaluating Digital Information

• Understand, analyze, evaluate, and use different types of print, digital, and multimodal media.
• Critically analyze information found in electronic, print, and mass media and use a variety of these sources.
• Gain an understanding of how to evaluate digital information based on four criteria: accuracy, authority, objectivity, and currency.
• Critique a website based on the 4 criteria and compose an opnion paragraph that explains if the website is believeable or not.

In this packet students will learn how to evaluate digital information based on four criteria. Students will then put this knowledge to use by taking a close look at a website and deciding whether the site is a hoax or not. Using the four criteria and guiding questions, students will write a paraprah stating their educated opinion.