Click Restraint and Revision

This lesson takes 7 minutes.

Objectives

Click Restraint. Crash Course · Navigating Digital Information #9. Watch on YouTube

Click restraint means scanning the results before opening the first one. The top result is a ranking decision, not a credential.

Records drift. Transparent corrections are a process signal; silent edits are a different signal. A dated archive fixes what was knowable when.

Faculty

Digital Inquiry Group · Civic Online Reasoning

Civic online reasoning; professional fact-checking behavior

Research-based curriculum used as supporting material.

- Treat the correction as proof of bias
- Keep using the original figure
- Use the corrected figure
- Stop trusting the source entirely
- The edit date, unless archived earlier
- The original publication date of the article
- The date it went viral
- Whatever date the author now says
- Open the first result, because the top rank is a credential
- Scan the results before you open any of them
- Treat a silent edit the same way you treat a dated correction
- Open the first result, then read the others only if it disappoints