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Tag: information literacy

People aren’t going to fact-check AI

Jul 19, 2024

in AI, Paper

accuracy, credibility, fact-checking, information literacy, information processing

Breakstone, J., Smith, M., Wineburg, S., Rapaport, A., Carle, J., Garland, M., & Saavedra, A. (2021). Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait. Educational Researcher, 50(8), 505–515. doi: 10.3102/0013189X211017495 Note that this paper was published in 2021. “Asked to investigate a site claiming to “disseminate factual reports” on climate science, 96% never learned about the…
Reference extract: credibility in academic searching?

Nov 19, 2008

in Research, Scholarship, Technology

credibility, credible search results, Google, information literacy, librarian, reference, refextract, research, search, search results

I’ve spoken before about the need to teach students how to search, not just by typing keywords into Google, but by being able to validate the search results in terms of credibility. Reference extract is a new project seeking to do just that, provide credible search results by using librarians (of the human variety) to…