SIFT Tutorial Reflection Questions

Short Assignment

Questions 

  • How do you feel about your ability to evaluate the credibility of a claim or source? How frequently do you try to evaluate claim or source credibility now?
  • The tutorial starts by critiquing checklist methods for evaluating online sources, but offers its own four-step strategy (SIFT). What do you think about the SIFT method? Does it provide a realistic approach to evaluating information online?
  • Now that you know about the SIFT method, do you think you’ll incorporate it into your daily life? Are there certain strategies that you think are more useful and important than others?
  • What did you like best about the tutorial? Were there any examples or strategies that really resonated with you? What did you like least about the tutorial? Was anything particularly challenging or unclear? How would you improve it?

Considerations

  • This set of reflection questions was written with the Check Please, Starter Course in mind, but if you were more drawn to the Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum, it could be modified to refer to those. 
  • HT to Hailey Mooney at the University of Michigan for this question set which was derived from her SOC295 SIFT assignment.

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