| Part 1: Seeking Knowledge through Information |
- Don't believe everything you think.
- Focusing your topic.
- Planning your project.
- Finding and evaluating quality information quickly and easily.
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| Part 2: Who Should You Believe? |
- Approaching a problem
- Understanding the research process
- Living in the post-truth world
- Distinguishing between opinion, fact, knowledge, and evidence-based expertise
- Recognizing authorities and experts and knowing why we should listen to them
- Uncovering an author's motives
- Recognizing our limits
- Respecting other points of view
- The advantages of consulting the library faculty
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| Part 3: Should You Believe Yourself? |
- Recognize how evolution often works against us when making logical decisions
- Knowing our senses should not always be trusted
- Recognizing that we act on emotion more often than on reason
- Valuing the importance of questioning our answers
- Spotting and avoiding confirmation bias
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| Part 4: Why Should I Believe You? |
- Convincing others to trust our sources
- Respecting consumers (readers) of our information
- Realizing our information sources reveal a great deal about us
- Being a responsible citizen in the digital world
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Lamson Library
Instruction Modules
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Interactive skills tutorials designed by the faculty librarians for searching PSU resources
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Crash Courses
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Crash Course [John Green and Hank Green] believe that high quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free. Crash Course transforms the traditional textbook model by presenting information in a fast-paced format, enhancing the learning experience.
The courses linked here are "Navigating Digital Information" and "Media Literacy."
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