Chapter 5 Additional resources

 Strength of evidence
  1. Navigating Digital Information. This is an online course developed with the support of Mediawise, based in the Poynter Institute (a non-pofit journalism school) with the aim of teaching student how to assess the accuracy of information the encounter online. The curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group. There are 10 episodes including ‘fact-checking’, ‘deciding who to trust’, ‘using Wikipedia’ and ‘evaluating evidence’. Each episode is about 15 minutes and should be almost compulsory for all students to watch. Make time to watch all of these. You can find the full playlist of 10 episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU
  2. Colin Swatridge, Oxford Guide to Effective Argument and Critical Thinking, (2014) Oxford University Press. This was mentioned in additional resources for chapter 4, but is also useful here. Especially chapters 5 and 7 for consolidation.
  3. The University of Utah library offer a very helpful consolidated list of websites which offer statistics sources. While many of these are credible, it is important to always make this assessment for yourself. Available at: https://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/statsinternational
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