Lateral Reading: How the World’s Best Researchers Evaluate Sources on the Internet

Series Moderator: Justin Reich Justin Reich is an associate professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT and the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. He is the author of Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, and the host of the TeachLab Podcast, which investigates the art and craft of teaching and how teachers can become even better at what they do. He earned his doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is a past Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society. His writings have been published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other scholarly journals, and public venues. October 18: “Lateral Reading: How the World’s Best Researchers Evaluate Sources on the Internet Sam Wineberg Description: Even if they don’t realize it, many people struggle to evaluate online sources and to separate truth from fiction online. Sam Wineberg and his colleagues have conducted groundbreaking research in order to understand how people can be misinformed online. Using this research, they developed the strategy of “lateral reading,“ an approach to engaging with online sources used by the world’s best editors and fact checkers.