Check Yourself with Lateral Reading by Crash Course

Online Verification Skills: Find the Original Source by CTRL-F 

Skill: Just Add Wikipedia with Mike Caulfield by CTRL-F

Deciding Who to Trust by Crash Course

Skill: Advanced Claim Check by CTRL-F

When evidence is not provided, search the web to see what other sources have to say about the claim. Mike Caulfield will show you how.

Evaluating Evidence by Crash Course

How to tell good evidence from bad and irrelevant evidence.

Evaluating Photos and Videos by Crash Course

Investigate an image to see if it has been tampered with by dropping it into TinEye, Google Images, or Berify. Skip to 6:17 in this Crash Course video for a quick demo on how to reverse search an image to:

1. Check the types of sites that have also used this image, including fact-checking sites and
2. See if the image has been cropped or in any other way altered to change its context.

To reverse search videos, take a screenshot of a distinct moment in the video and run it through the same sites above.

Simpsons Logical Fallacies: Post Hoc Fallacy by Colburn Classroom

An example of the false cause fallacy (correlation ≠ causation): Mistaking what is happening with why it is happening

STAR TREK Logical Thinking #14 - Single Cause Fallacy (Complex Cause) by CHDanhauser

An example of the single cause fallacy (oversimplification): Attributing a single cause when multiple causes are in play

Hasty Generalization Fallacy: Lesson and Activity by TolentinoTeaching

A short lesson on the hasty generalization (jumping to conclusions): Drawing conclusions on too small a sample size

Developed by Artists for Education 

Data & Infographics: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #8 by Crash Course

How to think critically about the statistics we encounter in everyday life