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Applying Critical Thinking to Navigate Online Information with Confidence

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Applying Critical Thinking to Navigate Online Information with Confidence

Applying Critical Thinking to Navigate Online Information with Confidence

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Intro

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What is critical thinking?

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Understanding information disorder

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Who spreads false information and why?

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Six-point strategy for critical thinking

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Cultivating a critical thinking mindset

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Deep dive into checking sources

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Deep dive into understanding bias

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Evaluating social media accounts

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Evaluating news sites

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Evaluating images online

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Evaluating videos online

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Transferring these skills to the classroom

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How can I share what I’ve learnt with others?

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Reflection

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Congratulations

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Instructor 1

Sushi Das is an award-winning journalist and lecturer with RMIT University’s Information Integrity Hub. For more than 20 years, she worked as a journalist for The Age newspaper in senior editorial positions, including news editor and opinion editor. More recently, she was Head of Fact-Checking at RMIT, where she led a team of fact-checkers who worked in partnership with Meta to verify inaccurate and misleading information on social media platforms. She lectures in journalism and produces educational resources to help build resilience against false and misleading information that can undermine democracy and cause serious harm to people’s health and finances. Sushi is also researching fact-checking for her PhD.

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