Working with the Poynter Institute and the Local Media Association and with support from Google.org (a charity founded by the technology giant), Wineburg and his team have created a civic online reasoning course that teaches students to evaluate information by reading laterally. Source: Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies – Scientific American
Category: Media Literacy
Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies – Scientific American
They found that whereas historians and students were often fooled by manipulative Web sites, journalism fact-checkers were not. In addition, their methods of analysis differed significantly: historians and students tried to assess the validity of Web sites and information by reading vertically, navigating within a site to learn more about it, but fact-checkers read laterally, […]
Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies – Scientific American
The idea is to teach kids how to evaluate and think critically about the messages they receive and to recognize falsehoods masquerading as truth. Source: Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies – Scientific American
Data & Society — Data Voids
Michael Golebiewski of Microsoft coined the term “data void” in May 2018 to describe search engine queries that turn up little to no results, especially when the query is rather obscure, or not searched often. Source: Data & Society — Data Voids