This document discusses how to identify reliable information sources and protect against misinformation. It suggests applying the CRAAP test to evaluate sources, understanding URL domains like .com, .org, and .gov, finding confirmation of information from multiple sources, and being aware of how media and funding can influence research and news. The goal is for professionals to make well-informed decisions by verifying facts from trustworthy sites.

4.  How is information dangerous?
 How can we protect ourselves?
 How could false information create
dangerous practice in youth work
etc?
 How can a professional worker in the
human services protect themselves
and the people they journey with?

5. What is truth in this age of post truth?
 ABC News
 The White House
 The Valley Report
 The Empire Herald
 World News Daily Report
 Burrard Street Journal
 ABC News
 The White House
 Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
 TMZ Links
 Uncensored
 Greenpeace
 NewsHub
 You are manipulated by information

6. Why can’t we trust the web and information ‘just given’ to
us about our world?
 NewsHub
 You are manipulated by information
 SNAP Chat, Fake News Styles
 What makes the news and funds
some (not all) research?
 Why is it that we can’t trust the web
and information just given to us?
 What might be meant by peer-
reviewed?
 Global Bits: Do the hand test
 Why can’t we trust the media?
 What should we do when we read
about our sector, new interventions
etc in the mass media?

9.  Apply the CRAAP test and journey
 Understand the URLs
 Com
 Co
 Org
 Edu
 Au
 NZ, UK, AU
 Gov
 Govt
 Find confirmation on the web and off the web

10.  Parkway School – What is Your Hope
 Aspirations