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Source Evaluation Worksheet: Lateral Reading in Five Fields
A structured worksheet for evaluating an unfamiliar publisher in about five minutes, with space to record what you found and what you still do not know.
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Digital Literacy
How platforms, feeds, and search results decide what reaches you in the first place.
Digital literacy covers the systems between a piece of content and your screen. Ranking systems, recommendation feeds, search engines, group chats, and forwarded messages all shape what you see and how often you see it. Understanding those systems changes how you interpret the fact that something appears popular, urgent, or universally agreed.
This page collects everything published under digital literacy: 3 lessons, 1 practice exercise, and 4 printable resources, alongside any articles and reports that draw on it.
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Think Lab
Evaluate a Source
Practice lateral reading on a fictional organization: what to do first, and how a funding finding should change your reading.
Lesson
How to Evaluate an Online Source
Lateral reading in practice: how to judge an unfamiliar website or account in about two minutes by leaving the page rather than studying it.
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Library Workshop Outline: Two Sessions, Two Hours Each
A two-part workshop outline for public library programming, with room requirements, promotion language, and a plan for participants who arrive only once.
Toolkit resource
Source Evaluation Worksheet: Lateral Reading in Five Fields
A structured worksheet for evaluating an unfamiliar publisher in about five minutes, with space to record what you found and what you still do not know.
Lesson
How Images Lose Their Original Context
Recontextualized photographs mislead more often than manipulated ones. Here is how it happens and how to trace an image back to its origin.
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Image Context Checklist: Tracing a Photograph
Six checks for establishing when and where a photograph was taken and what it can honestly be said to show.
Think Lab
Evaluate a Source
Practice lateral reading on a fictional organization: what to do first, and how a funding finding should change your reading.
Lesson
How to Evaluate an Online Source
Lateral reading in practice: how to judge an unfamiliar website or account in about two minutes by leaving the page rather than studying it.
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Feed Audit Worksheet: Ten Items, Three Questions
A short structured audit of your own feed that makes the selection process visible and separates what you see from what is prevalent.
Lesson
How Algorithms Shape What You See
What ranking and recommendation systems optimize for, and how that changes the meaning of popularity, consensus, and urgency in a feed.
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Related subject areas
- Media Literacy: How news and media are produced, and what that means for the way you read them.
- Critical Thinking: Separating what is observed, what is inferred, what is assumed, and how confident to be.
- AI Literacy: What changes, and what does not, when content is produced or altered by AI systems.
- Information Manipulation: The recurring techniques used to mislead audiences, and how to name them.
- Information resilience: calibrating confidence and updating on new evidence.
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