Taking Care as you Learn: Triangulate

Taking Care as You Learn

with Triangulation.

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INFORMATION

SOURCE

Know who your information

is coming from.(All sources are NOT created equal.)

Seek to understand any subjective

bent that might exist.

(Neither good nor bad in itself…only

if YOU are not aware.)

SOURCES CITED

Are the sources of critical facts provided and conclusions supported?

(Through either attribution, or use of footnotes, or endnotes.)

Citations have

been provided and

include several

media and NGOs.

SUPPORTING

SOURCES

Are the same facts supported

in others’ work and within

similar contexts?

Seek out subject

matter experts

(SMEs).

Wikipedia can serve as your ‘Cliff

Notes’ version of details; content

is supported with citations.

Direct access to data from governmental agencies

and/or non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such

as The World Bank, World Economic Forum (WEF), others

Foreign press reports• The Guardian, The Economist, The Financial Times, others

Thought leaders • http://www.thinkers50.com/

Writings of Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winners

Works suggested by your local public library

TO TRIANGULATE FURTHER, SEEK OUT:

Colleen N. Hickman, senior researcher

colleen@globalmindfeed.com

Slide 1 photo: © Copyright 2012, Erik Johansson. All rights reserved.