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Evaluating quality of online information

Evaluating data is critical for making judgments on potentially viable solutions or for determining the true causes of problems. These strategies, developed by University of Rhode Island associate professor Julie Cairo, can be integrated into existing assignments to help teenagers and college students learn how to critically evaluate their sources.

   Article

   20 minutes

   By: Julie Cairo

   Educator-prep | K-12 educators


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Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.

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