UNCG Libraries presents a webinar series on “Research and Applications.”  This webinar series is for UNCG students, staff, faculty, instructors, and librarians.  The series will cover topics on library resources and research tools.  These webinars are all 30 minutes and are hosted in Zoom.  Once participants sign up, they will get an email with link to the session the day of or before the webinar.

January 14th at 1pm

“Lateral Reading” by Jenny Dale, UNCG Libraries Information Literacy Coordinator

In his OER book Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, Mike Caulfield describes lateral reading as reading “across many connected sites instead of digging deep into the site at hand” (2017, ch. 16). Research indicates that lateral reading is a powerful tool for fact-checking and online source evaluation. In this webinar, Information Literacy Coordinator Jenny Dale will provide background and context on lateral reading and share activities she has used with classes across disciplines to help UNCG students develop their lateral reading skills.