https://digitalwriting.site/2024/09/19/wait-dont-click-that-how-verified-teaches-us-to-outsmart-the-internet/ Experiments in Digital Content Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:30:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://digitalwriting.site/2024/09/19/wait-dont-click-that-how-verified-teaches-us-to-outsmart-the-internet/#comment-445 Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:30:37 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1346#comment-445 I love your take on “Verified.” Your summary of the chapters perfectly captures the essential strategies for navigating today’s chaotic internet landscape. Click restraint, lateral reading, etc. are all amazing techniques that we should start implementing more. It even tells us that you can’t always trust a .org or .edu (even though we’ve been taught to always look at these types of sites). Chapter 3’s emphasis on checking who’s behind the content really hits home, too. It’s wild how many people can sound credible with just a good website. Their approach gives us practical tools to dodge misinformation and become more efficient online. The way you go about summarizing each part we read is entertaining and pulls you into the post. Your comparison of this to the digital version of stranger danger had me laughing. Great post!

]]> https://digitalwriting.site/2024/09/19/wait-dont-click-that-how-verified-teaches-us-to-outsmart-the-internet/#comment-427 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:23:18 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1346#comment-427 I have to say… you are a fantastically, engaging writer! I enjoyed your witty remarks based on the readings. I also agree that it is extremely important to think before you research. Most of the times, I will think of a question and start looking for articles or websites without truly knowing what I am looking for. Then I will get to the point of compiling my data and organizing it into topics and points of discussion, just to realize I have a lot of information that doesn’t have a whole lot to do with what I wanted to truly talk about. I think this goes into the SIFT method we read about. I did all the other steps, but I didn’t initially stop and ask myself what I am truly looking for and trying to research. I also found the google search engine results to be an interesting point of discussion, especially regarding how a slight change of wording will spit out completely different viewpoints on a topic. All in all, I loved your post! Great job writing!

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