Foundations: Information Literacy and Primary Sources Webinar

 This resource is a webinar from the Library of Congress about Information Literacy and Historical Primary sources. It aims to educate teachers about how to use primary sources in their teachings and teach everyone how to find information online and through different sources. It talks about avoiding bias in information search as evaluating evidence. 

https://tinyurl.com/4btth9xu


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