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: De senaste nyheterna, Sveriges största nyhetssajt. 4 Fake Sites to Teach Students Website Evaluation. As adults we (hopefully) know that not everything online is true.

4 Fake Sites to Teach Students Website Evaluation

For our students though, this is a concept they need to learn. Students can use Google to quickly find millions of websites matching their search request, but are they able to determine which sites actually contain information that is accurate, unbiased, up to date, and written by someone with authority? One step in helping our students identify quality information online is to introduce them to the exact opposite… websites that pretend to be truthful but actually are full of intentionally incorrect information. Such “fake” websites can be a great way to show students that just because something is online, does not mean it is true.

You can ask students to do research on one of these sites as part of an assignment and then see how many were able to realize the site was not authentic. Now you might think this would be easy to do since there are so many sites online that are biased or misleading. #the4thBox — Center for Story-based Strategy. The Evolution of an Accidental Meme – Craig Froehle. Last week, an online friend of mine sent me a private message via Google+: My jaw hit the keyboard…that was my image, but it also wasn’t my image.

The Evolution of an Accidental Meme – Craig Froehle

It was the concept behind my image, but completely redrawn (and by someone with actual artistic talent!). I was stunned…and delighted. How did this happen? Back in 2012, shortly after the US elections, I had crafted up a graphic to illustrate my point in an argument I was having with a conservative activist. My original post (below) racked up around 3,000 +1s and over 1,000 shares, which was just amazing to me, especially given that Google+ was barely 18 months old and still fairly small as social sites go. I felt pretty satisfied, but I didn’t consider what was happening to all those G+ reshares. But, unbeknownst to me, as the Internet is so wonderfully amazing at doing, my original graphic was being adapted, modified, and repurposed in a mind-blowing variety of ways, and then shared and redistributed all over the place.

Indeed. Hmm. You Won’t Believe What Obama Says In This Video! □ The LivBits - Home. 4 Fake Sites to Teach Students Website Evaluation. As adults we (hopefully) know that not everything online is true.

4 Fake Sites to Teach Students Website Evaluation

For our students though, this is a concept they need to learn. Students can use Google to quickly find millions of websites matching their search request, but are they able to determine which sites actually contain information that is accurate, unbiased, up to date, and written by someone with authority? One step in helping our students identify quality information online is to introduce them to the exact opposite… websites that pretend to be truthful but actually are full of intentionally incorrect information.

Such “fake” websites can be a great way to show students that just because something is online, does not mean it is true. You can ask students to do research on one of these sites as part of an assignment and then see how many were able to realize the site was not authentic. Att göra det osynliga synligt. Normer är föreställningar, idéer och oskrivna regler som formar oss som individer, våra relationer till andra människor och hela samhället.

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Normer är värderingar hos en själv som man kan ha reflekterat mer eller mindre kring att man faktiskt har. The Power to Change the World: A Teaching Unit on Student Activism in History and Today. 3D Face Reconstruction. 7 Indigenous Voices You Need to Know About on this Indigenous Peoples Day. Today across Turtle Island (also known as the United States), millions are celebrating the resiliency within themselves and within their communities.

7 Indigenous Voices You Need to Know About on this Indigenous Peoples Day

They are celebrating and honoring those that came before them and those that will come after them. They are celebrating perseverance and determination. They are celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day. As of this year 19 cities including Los Angeles, Austin, and Salt Lake City, have joined the 36 cities across the county who already recognize Indigenous Peoples Day rather than Columbis day. Indigenous Peoples Day honors the original peoples of this land and celebrates the resilience of those who to this day are fighting systems of oppression that began the moment Columbus and Spanish conquistadors landed in Taíno and Arawak territories (also known as the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

Now let’s make it clear that Indigenous Peoples day is not an attack on those who have immigrated to the U.S. Check them out, support, and share! 8 Compelling Mini-Documentaries to Teach Close Reading and Critical Thinking Skills. Video From the days when instructional films like these were shown via projector, students have enjoyed watching movies in class. Teachers have too. But it’s often hard to justify watching a two-hour film when there’s so much else that has to be done. But, what about an eight-minute film? That’s the average length of our Film Club features, and these short documentary films do much more than just entertain.

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