M2:W6 | AUTHENTIC PRACTICE \\ Evaluating a Web Page PART 2

Overview

It's important for you as individuals to be able to distinguish between truth and disinformation online. It is also important for you to be able to teach your future students to be able to do the same.

You are being provided with the opportunity evaluate two different web pages. You have already evaluated "Unsolved: The Mysterious Disappearance of Santiago Flight" and now you are evaluating "Bomb Squad Removes Suspicious Object That Closed I-93 North."

You will evaluate these pages in a way that is scaffolded and supported using the How to Spot Fake News framework from FactCheck.org.

Task

Your task is to determine if the webpage "Bomb Squad Removes Suspicious Object That Closed I-93 North" is truth or disinformation using the How to Spot Fake News framework.

1. Read through the webpage keeping as open a mind as possible.
2. Referring back to the webpage, respond to the survey questions which are based on the How to Spot Fake News framework to the best of your ability. DO NOT RESPOND THE VERY LAST QUESTION ABOUT WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISINTERPRETED UNTIL AFTER YOU SUBMIT THE SURVEY.
3. Indicate whether, based on your analysis, the webpage is True or Fake and submit the survey.
4. If you are told that you provided the incorrect conclusion, reopen the survey and respond to the last question, figuring out where you may have misinterpreted something.

You will be embedding one of these strategies into your scaffolded article module performance.

Page to Evaluate

If it is not displaying for you, the direct link is https://web.archive.org/web/20070206212122/http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/01/bomb_squad_remo.html.