# Finding things, and telling what is true

Information and data literacy: searching, judging a source, keeping what you found.

7 screens, about three minutes. Pictures, almost no words.

## You need to know something.

*Picture: One large box labelled a question.*

That is where this area starts.

## Searching is the easy half.

*Picture: A box labelled your question with an arrow to a dashed frame holding nine result boxes.*

Anyone can get a thousand results.

## Judging it is the hard half.

*Picture: Three result boxes side by side, the middle one green, each with a mono label: who wrote it, when, and what for.*

Three questions do most of the work.

## Then put it somewhere.

*Picture: A box labelled a good answer with an arrow into a dashed frame labelled where you can look again.*

A good answer you cannot find again is not an answer.

## Three competences, one habit.

*Picture: Three steps in a row with arrows: find, judge, keep. The middle step is amber.*

The framework calls this area three things. It is one loop.

## Do today

Find one thing you looked up last week and see whether you could find it again.

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