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A Less Is More Approach to Evaluating Information: A Chat with Mike Caulfield: Further Reading

Recording of event and resources shared during online chat between Mike Caulfield and librarians and faculty from Lansing Community College and Michigan State University.

Articles on This Page

Below are articles referenced in Mike Caulfield's article that were shared in the chat, as well as additional links shared by chat participants.

Decision Making

Lateral Reading

Lateral reading and the nature of expertise: Reading less and learning more when evaluating digital information
Improving college students’ fact-checking strategies through lateral reading instruction in a general education civics course
Lateral reading: Reading less and learning more when evaluating digital information
The digital media literacy gap: How to build widespread resilience to false and misleading information using evidence-based classroom tools
Citizens versus the Internet: Confronting digital challenges with cognitive tools

SIFT Method

Infographic showing the steps of SIFT, a method created by Mike Caulfield and shared here with a Creative Commons license.

Introducing SIFT, a four moves acronymn
About the SIFT Method
Check, Please! Starter Course
"Learn how to fact and source-check in five easy lessons, taking about 30 minutes apiece. The entire online curriculum is two and a half to three hours and is suitable homework for the first week of a college-level module on disinformation or online information literacy, or the first few weeks of a course if assigned with other discipline-focused homework."

Student Strengths

On their own terms: First-year student interviews about everyday life research can help librarians flip the deficit script

Other Links Shared

How Today’s College Students Use Wikipedia for Course-Related Research
From Schooled Skepticism to Informed Trust
How reliable and useful is Cabell's Blacklist ? A data-driven analysis
About predatory journals
more...less...
Christophe Dony, Maurane Raskinet, François Renaville, Stéphanie Simon, Paul Thirion, (2020). How reliable and useful is Cabell’s Blacklist ? A data-driven analysis. LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 30(1), 1–38. https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10339