Find & Judge Information Online

You can search the web more effectively, using better words and more than one source.

Time: ~15-20 min
Type: exercise
Bloom: Apply → Create
XP: 100

Concept architecture for Find & Judge Information Online — Lesson 10.1 — concept architecture

You'll be able to

You can search the web more effectively, using better words and more than one source.
You can use "lateral reading" to check who is behind a website instead of just trusting the page itself.
You can decide whether a source is credible by asking a few simple questions.
You can spot common misinformation, and you can spot when an AI tool makes up facts that sound real.
You can cross-check a claim before you share it or act on it.

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Fast answers, not always good ones

The internet hands you answers fast. Some are solid. Some are wrong, out of date, slanted, or simply invented.

This lesson gives you a few habits that take seconds and save you from passing along bad information. The same habits work whether the answer came from a Google search, a friend's post, or an AI chatbot. Checking an AI's answer is the same skill as checking a website.

Prompt Labruns here · claude

Your task Write a prompt that asks Claude to recommend the right AI setup for a real task you're facing — then weigh its answer against this lesson, "Find & Judge Information Online."

a strong prompt:role · context · task · format · example

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Exercise · audit

Pick one surprising claim you saw recently, online or from an AI tool. Open a new browser tab. Search the claim in your own words plus the year. Find two trusted sources. Do they agree? Write one sentence: "I checked this and it is supported / not supported by ___." That one habit is the whole lesson.

Deliverable

Complete the hands-on task on your own device and note what you did, so the skill sticks.

Common misconceptions

“Staying on the suspicious page”
Reading harder on a sketchy site does not help. Leave it and look the source up elsewhere.
“Trusting confident wording”
Both bad websites and AI tools sound sure of themselves. Confidence is not evidence. Links and second sources are.
“Sharing on emotion”
If a post makes you instantly angry or scared, that is exactly the moment to slow down and check before you share.

Quiz · adaptive · 5 items

Mastery check

Match each term to its definition. Pass at 80% to earn the lesson's XP and unlock the next.

Sources

[1]Large Language Models Hallucination·Large Language Models Hallucination: A Comprehensive Survey (fluent but factually wrong output) (CP-253760) (n.d.) · Research
[2]Trust Me·Trust Me, I'm Wrong: LLMs Hallucinate with Certainty Despite Knowing the Answer (confident wrong answers) (CP-253659) (n.d.) · Research
[3]Arresting fake news sharing on social media·Arresting fake news sharing on social media: a theory of planned behavior approach (verify-before-sharing, FoMO) (CP-49026) (n.d.) · Research
[4]SIFT Method (UChicago Library)·SIFT Method (UChicago Library) (n.d.) · Research
[5]Lateral Reading and SIFT (Central Michigan University Libraries)·Lateral Reading and SIFT (Central Michigan University Libraries) (n.d.) · Research
[6]Using Lateral Reading & SIFT (Minnesota State Mankato)·Using Lateral Reading & SIFT (Minnesota State Mankato) (n.d.) · Research
[7]Stop Disinformation Products (CISA)·Stop Disinformation Products (CISA) (n.d.) · Standards
[8]Disinformation Stops With You (CISA)·Disinformation Stops With You (CISA) (n.d.) · Standards

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