Transcript Welcome to 21st Century Literacy!

Please turn in parent permission slips, if
you haven’t already!
Today’s Agenda/Goals
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Journal: Credibility and Accuracy
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Research Credibility & Accuracy = ETHOS
 Goal: Practice locating quality information while
researching.
 Goal: Practice critically analyzing research so that you
can determine if it is credible, accurate, and relevant.
Journal: Credibility and Accuracy
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Directions: Answer the following questions in complete
sentences. Remember to restate the question in your
answer!
1. What makes you think that a website is
credible or accurate?
2. What makes you think that a website is
not credible or accurate?
3. How are credibility and accuracy
different?
Cornell Notes
 Todays Topic:
Ethos: Credibility
 Essential Question:
Why is establishing
credibility an essential
part of research?
Credibility vs. Accuracy
RR&D NOTES
Make sure you have these definitions!
§ Credibility: The quality of being believable or
trustworthy (related to Ethos!).
§ Accuracy: Being right, correct, exact, or
precise.
§ Can you be one without the other?
§ If so, give an example…
Wikipedia?!
RR&D NOTES
Wikipedia Documentary Video 7:00
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In your RR&D NOTES
What are acceptable/unacceptable situations or
reasons to use Wikipedia while researching?
Wikipedia for Research
Acceptable
Unacceptable
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A Primary Source is a document which was
written or created during the time under study.
 Interviews
 Experts
 Witnesses
 Must have credibility!
 Surveys
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www.polleverywhere.com
Facebook
Google Form
Paper
At least 30-50 people!
 Observation Data
 Can be made into statistics, graphs
StudentDriven
Research
(SDR)
RRD NOTES!
A Secondary Source interprets and analyzes
primary sources.
 Internet Websites
 Textbooks
 Encyclopedias
 Documentaries
 Videos
 Magazine Articles
 Critiques and Reviews
 Histories
RRD NOTES!
All of these might have quotes, images, etc. from
primary sources in them!
Click on the Icon to play the video
Locating & Accessing Information
Search Engines
(i.e. Google)
• Pull up every single thing that
anyone has ever posted on the
internet that is even slightly
associated with your topic.
• Huge amounts of information.
• Not guaranteed to be credible.
• Free, no password needed
Search Overload
Academic Databases
(i.e. SIRS, InfoTrac)
• Pull up only articles printed
in proven credible
publications such as
magazines, newspapers,
and scholarly journals.
• Smaller selection.
• Guaranteed credible.
• Need a subscription (costs
$$)
• Need a username and
password
Search Engines
Tools, Tips, & Tricks
Google > More
Careful about
credibility &
accuracy!
Scholarly, more
credible and accurate
sources than just
websites. More like an
academic database.
Terms Found in Research
RR&D Notes
 Probability:
 a measure of how likely it
is that some event will
occur
 Statistics:
 data that can be
represented numerically
 Proportion:
 A part in relation to its
whole
 1 piece of an 8 slice
pizza
 a half of a pie
 Approximate:
estimate
 Average/Mean:
Add up all results,
divide by total #
 Median:
Result in the middle
(Equal # above and
below it)
 Mode:
# that occurs most
often
When you are researching…
•use your brain
evaluate websites!
Authority & Bias
 One of the most important features to
evaluate when researching!
 “Who is the author of the information?”
 WRONG: There is no “author” so I can skip
this part. 
 RIGHT: What organization created this site?
What does it believe? Are they credible?
Are they biased? Does biased necessarily
mean not accurate? 
RADCAB Sheet
Used to evaluate Bias, Authority and Credibility
Reminder: You must evaluate 1 credible web
site and fill out a RADCAB form as proof for the
research part of your project!
Independent Practice
aka Homework
1. Find a website about YOUR debate
topic. Print out pages that you think you
will use for your research
2. Complete the RADCAB sheet, including
the two summary questions, for the
website of your choice to determine its
credibility.
Do NOT use Wikipedia for this assignment!
Project Reminders
 Required to have 4 TOTAL
SOURCES for the Research
Part of the project.
1 Student-Driven Research Source
 Expert interview, survey, observation
data, etc.
Show me your
survey questions
and results;
interview
questions and
answers, etc.
1 Article from a Database
 Sirs, GALE database
 Usernames and passwords on poster &
on desktops
1 Credible Website
 You must RADCAB at least one website,
too!
1 Additional Source: Pick 1
 Another website or database article,
video, podcast, etc.
Save and actively read
by PRINTING
Surveys…
For the SDR source, you will show your
survey questions and results.
Surveys: consider making a chart or pie graph to
show your results
Best survey results are ANONYMOUS
Type up your survey question and allow people to
answer on paper
No hand-raising or questioning of reasons!!
Consider Advisory: Ask 2 teachers if they will
allow you to give your survey question during their
advisory
Only question 8th and 9th grade classes
The 6/7th graders are too young for these topics
Surveys
Try www.polleverywhere.com
Create an account
Type in your question
To turn in results to me
Do a “print screen” and print the page of
results. You can save the image and use it
later in your VoiceThread recording.
Or you can print slips and pass them out,
use surveymonkey.com, use facebook.
Interviews
You must have interview notes or a typed
script to document your interview
I recommend recording your interview and
taking notes afterwards
It is not possible to upload your interview to
Voicethread…you will quote it as a source
Homework
KEEP researching!
Complete your RADCAB sheet for your
World Wide Website source
Complete Cornell questions column from
today’s notes.
ALL research due next week
Remember to PRINT ALL sources!
Lesson Summary
1. What's more important – accuracy or
credibility? Explain.
2. What are three features you can
check to evaluate the credibility of a
website?