Crofton House Senior School Library Homepage: Evaluating Sources

Google explains how search works

Resource from Website Setup, an organization helping website creators with improving their content

A poster version of these tips can be found here.

Use these important steps to evaluate articles, resources to find the truth!

Make a copy of this CRAAP test checklist to evaluate your sources

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A helpful interactive infographic to decipher "credible" news sources.

Some great resources for educators. Try the quizzes or sign up for the newsletter.

Some online activities for digital citizenship.

Resources from Canada's centre for digital media literacy

Resources for teachers on a variety of digital citizenship issues. Sign up for an account for free lesson plans.

A department within Agence France-Presse (AFP), a multi-lingual, multicultural news agency whose mission is to provide accurate, balanced and impartial coverage of news wherever and whenever it happens in the world on a continuous basis.

Site displays the day’s top news stories from the Left, Center and Right of the political spectrum side-by-side so you can see the full picture

Tool to create your own fake websites.

Focusses on current event fake news.

Test your knowledge of fake news with this fun online game!

Helps to decipher fake news happening in politics.

Deleted Tweets from political officials. (What they regret or don't want you to know!)

Similar to Politifact, helps to distinguish lies and fake news being spread throughout all media.

NLP created RumorGuard to fight against misinformation. Each fact-checked viral rumour contains concrete tips to help evaluate claims seen online.

A great source for de-bunking rumours and urban legends. Try clicking on "The Top 50" to see what the most popular rumours are currently.

Fact checking for TV News.

A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.