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key: mechanic/education--source-verification
type: mechanic
id: education--source-verification
lang: en
title: Finding and checking digital sources
summary: >-
  The learner finds messages, compares independent evidence and checks a
  source’s origin before accepting a conclusion.
updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
status: active
url: >-
  https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/education--source-verification/
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  https://gamemechanics.pro/api/v1/knowledge/en/mechanic/education--source-verification.json
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  https://gamemechanics.pro/content/knowledge/en/mechanic/education--source-verification.md
aliases:
  - Finding and checking sources
tags:
  - Educational games
  - Applied learning and evidence work
sourceIds:
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sources:
  - id: source-86b980b788f54522
    title: Her Story
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/'
    verifiedAt: null
relations: []
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  - catalogId: education
    id: source-verification
    title: Educational games
    url: 'https://gamemechanics.pro/en/mechanics/education/#source-verification'
    categoryIds:
      - applied-learning
supersededBy: []
attributes:
  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Finding and checking sources
    description: >-
      The learner finds messages, compares independent evidence and checks a
      source’s origin before accepting a conclusion.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/adventure-her-story-00.webp
      width: 1440
      height: 900
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      game: Her Story
      sourceUrl: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/'
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        https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/368370/ss_47f0e58df778d9f10b3df40ddce8bba8e592b1fb.1920x1080.jpg?t=1684962832
      credit: Sam Barlow
      rights: >-
        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed
        Steam screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.
      caption: 'A search query, recordings and a user tag'
      alt: 'A search query, recordings and a user tag'
      markers:
        - x: 58
          'y': 40
          label: A query retrieves related recordings
        - x: 44
          'y': 59
          label: The player adds a personal tag
    tips:
      - 'Distinguish firsthand evidence, retelling and inference.'
    examples:
      - title: Her Story
        url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/'
endsAt: null
provenance: >-
  Educational reference expanded from all 64 families and 749 variants of the
  original children-education taxonomy, with original editorial additions dated
  2026-10-20. Sources support specific methods and examples, not the entire
  classification or its effectiveness.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/education
---
# Finding and checking digital sources

id: education--source-verification
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/education--source-verification
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/education--source-verification/

The learner finds messages, compares independent evidence and checks a source’s origin before accepting a conclusion.

## At a glance

![A search query, recordings and a user tag](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/adventure-her-story-00.webp)

[Her Story](https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed Steam screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. A query retrieves related recordings
2. The player adds a personal tag

- Distinguish firsthand evidence, retelling and inference.

- [Her Story](https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/)

## How it works

A learning task is solved by finding, comparing and checking the origins of messages.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="source-verification-variants"></a>

- Form a query around an information gap <a id="source-verification-1"></a>
- Find a primary publication from a retelling <a id="source-verification-2"></a>
- Check a message’s author and date <a id="source-verification-3"></a>
- Compare a claim with its full context <a id="source-verification-4"></a>
- Distinguish independent corroboration from a reprint <a id="source-verification-5"></a>
- Find an original image among altered versions <a id="source-verification-6"></a>
- Mark information still missing for a conclusion <a id="source-verification-7"></a>
- Attach a verifiable source link to an answer <a id="source-verification-8"></a>

## Design example

Hypothetical newsroom: verify an event report and assemble a card with supporting evidence.

## Context and limits

A mechanic map for games with explicit learning goals, from first encounters with a topic to professional practice. It covers children, teenagers and adults; choose subject, difficulty, context and controls for the learner. Player actions, subject content, instructional support and assessment are distinct layers. Scores and game completion alone do not establish mastery or skill transfer.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Educational reference expanded from all 64 families and 749 variants of the original children-education taxonomy, with original editorial additions dated 2026-10-20. Sources support specific methods and examples, not the entire classification or its effectiveness.

- [Her Story](https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/) (id: source-86b980b788f54522)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors