Domain Names

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Students often assume that websites ending in .edu are always reliable, while those ending in .com are automatically suspect. This lesson will challenge some of the assumptions that students commonly make about websites based on their top-level domains and provide a chance for students to practice using the clues that domains provide.

Crash Course Video #4: Who Can You Trust?

In this video, John Green dives deeper into lateral reading, discussing how to evaluate the authority and perspective of online sources.