Judging What You Read Online: teacher key

Staying Safe Online, grade 11 edition, written for 11th grade. Anyone can publish anything online. Follow the methods fact-checkers use, from lateral reading to SIFT, then see how trust, tracking and passwords shape what you can safely believe and share.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

What does lateral reading mean?
- Reading the page twice
- Leaving an unfamiliar site and opening new tabs to see what trusted sources say about it (answer)
- Reading from the bottom up
What did the Stanford study find about people who relied on their gut and website appearances?
- They were rarely fooled
- Many were fooled by a misleading website (answer)
- They read more slowly
What is the first move of the SIFT method?
- Trace claims back to the original
- Stop (answer)
- Find better coverage
When a company sells a product, what should you check?
- Its logo
- Who has an interest in the claim (answer)
- How many tabs are open
What does fingerprinting keep doing even if you delete cookies?
- Identifying a device (answer)
- Showing ads only
- Saving your login
What does a valid certificate ask you to trust?
- The certificate authority that checked it (answer)
- The browser color
- Your password

Words

lateral: opening new tabs
SIFT: four-move method
fingerprinting: device tracking
certificate: web address proof