January 28th, 2021

Critical Assessment Skills, Not (Solely) Technology

There is an opportunity for users to learn skills to decipher authoritative, accurate, verifiable, unbiased information. Technology can help in this process, but the learning must be on the user. We use a framework at my library to prompt users to critically evaluate sources of information. The library's role is to help in educating this process.

Tags: Accuracy, Disinformation, Fake news, Sources, Verification

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Hi Berika:

Thanks for joining our conversation. I'd love to hear more about the framework you use and how it prompts users to critically evaluate sources of information. Can you walk us through it?

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Yes, we adapted a form of a the CRAAP Test developed by librarian, Sarah Blakeslee. "CRAAP" is an acronym that stands for "Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose". There are numerous references in the literature and a Wikipedia entry that touches upon it.

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