Comparisons

Here are some online reference sites.

Think critically as you compare (see critical thinking checklist below).

The following checklist of typical critical-thinking skills is reproduced from Robert Ennis, "A Concept of Critical Thinking," Harvard Educational Review, Winter 1962: 38.

Critical-Thinking Checklist distinguishing between verifiable facts and value claims determining the reliability of a claim or source determining the accuracy of a statement distinguishing between warranted and unwarranted claims detecting bias identifying stated and unstated assumptions recognizing logical inconsistencies determining the strength of an argument

Also keep in mind the Five Core Concepts and corresponding Five Key Questions for Media Literacy:

Five Core Concepts

1. All media messages are constructed.
2. Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules.
3. Different people experience the same messages differently.
4. Media have embedded values and points of view.
5. Media messages are constructed to gain profit and/or power.

Five Key Questions

1. Who created this message?
2. What techniques are used to attract my attention?
3. How might different people understand this message differently from me?
4. What lifestyles, values, and points of view are represented in or omitted from this message?
5. Why was this message sent?

Source: Center for Media Literacy (CML).

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/media_literacy/key_concept.cfm

Accessed May 13, 2009

Okay, here are the sites:

1. Conservapedia
2. Encyberpedia
   
3. Encyclopedia Brittanica
4. Encyclopedia.com
   
5. Encyclopedia Dramatica
6. Encyclopedia Metallum
7. Encyclopedia Popcornica
   
8. Metapedia
9. Rationalwiki
   
10. Wikipedia