Separating the Real from the Fake (News)
OTAN: 2.05.2020
The politically-charged American landscape has already seen its fill of newsworthy items in 2020 – the impeachment trial in the Senate, the Iowa caucus and the kickoff of the US presidential campaign, the ramp-up to the 2020 Census – that make it challenging for the average American to sift through the news, fake or otherwise. As we continue through election season, nominating conventions, and televised debates, and complete our Census forms in a few months, this year promises to be jam-packed with news that screams for our attention.
In the January OTAN web-based activity, Kristi Reyes previewed some sites for developing students’ media literacy and critical thinking skills, including
There is another site making headlines, and that is Civic Online Reasoning (COR), created by the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG). Near the end of 2019, SHEG published Students' Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait, which described how US high school students, often termed “digital natives,” had difficulty identifying fake news and rarely employed steps that might help them identify with certainty whether an online news item or social media post was real or fake. SHEG’s main recommendation was that students (and adults) needed more training to sort through information on the Internet to become well-informed citizens and not be duped. READ MORE >>
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