Teaching Click Restraint

When we have a question or are searching for sources, we likely turn to a search engine to help us find answers. We often click on the first result—perhaps because sifting through all the results takes time, or because we assume the first result is the most trustworthy. But the first result is not always the best place to start. Spending a little more time scanning search results can help us make a more informed choice about where to go first.

This collection provides lessons and short tasks to teach and assess the skill of click restraint: resisting the urge to immediately click on the first search engine result to instead scan the results page to make a more informed choice about where to go first.