Learning Objectives
- Understand the basics of information:
- Difference between data, facts and information
- Types of information:
- primary vs. secondary
- popular vs. scholarly
Introduction
Task 1 Instructions
Put the names of everyone at your table at the top of the page on your first lined paper. As a group and without using your phones define the following words:
- Information
- Data
- Facts
- Popular Sources of Information
- Scholarly Sources of Information
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Universal Resource Locator (URL)
(10 minutes - ~75 seconds for each definition)
If you don't know come up with a reasonable guess. We will discuss the real definitions after groups share.
Task 2 Instructions
On your second lined paper, turn it horizontal (landscape) and draw a grid with 5 columns (down) and 6 rows (across). In the top row write the following words, one in each column:
Information
Sources
Internet
Research
Fake News
