PIL: information literacy in the age of algorithms: Student experiences with news and information, and the need for change
Big Tech’s Pandemic Power Grab - The Atlantic In the years before the virus, critics began to prophesy that a handful of tech companies would soon grow more powerful than the government. Their scale and influence, and their ability to manipulate public opinion and shape markets, would permit them to reign unimpeded. Facial recognition has always troubled people of color. Black and brown communities are often the first to warn about surveillance tech and the last to get recognized for it. Our reponse to the European Commission’s consultation on AI – AlgorithmWatch AlgorithmWatch welcomes the European Commission’s efforts to develop a regulatory framework which is based on European values and in full respect of fundamental rights. Engines of Order | Amsterdam University Press Software has become a key component of contemporary life and algorithmic techniques that rank, classify, or recommend anything that fits into digital form are everywhere. Microsoft Corp.
*Civic Online Reasoning
If young people are not prepared to critically evaluate the information that bombards them online, they are apt to be duped by false claims and misleading arguments. To help teachers address these critical skills, we’ve developed assessments of civic online reasoning—the ability to judge the credibility of digital information about social and political issues. These assessments ask students to reason about online content. We’ve designed paper-and-pencil tasks as well as tasks that students complete online. These assessments are intended for flexible classroom use. We hope teachers use the tasks to design classroom activities, as the basis for discussions about digital content, and as formative assessments to learn more about students’ progress as they learn to evaluate online information. As part of MediaWise, the Stanford History Education Group is developing and evaluating new civic online reasoning lesson plans for middle and high school students.
Free Speech Is Killing Us
In 1993 and 1994, talk-radio hosts in Rwanda calling for bloodshed helped create the atmosphere that led to genocide. The Clinton administration could have jammed the radio signals and taken those broadcasts off the air, but Pentagon lawyers decided against it, citing free speech. It’s true that the propagandists’ speech would have been curtailed. It’s also possible that a genocide would have been averted. I am not calling for repealing the First Amendment, or even for banning speech I find offensive on private platforms. The Constitution prevents the government from using sticks, but it says nothing about carrots. Congress could fund, for example, a national campaign to promote news literacy, or it could invest heavily in library programming. Or the private sector could pitch in on its own. “We need to protect the rights of speakers,” John A. Mr.
Fact Finder: Your Foolproof Guide to Media Literacy | NewseumED
Are your students savvy searchers? Can they spot the difference between a straight news article and an opinion piece? Do they recognize bias in their sources … or in themselves? Tackle these challenges and more using Fact Finder’s 11 flexible, multimedia lesson plans. Eight skill-building lesson plans introduce essential media literacy concepts through engaging explainer videos and colorful infographics that help students revisit, retain and apply the key concepts. Adapting Fact Finder for Your Classroom From Key Ideas to Complete Curriculum Polish one particular skill or take your students on a comprehensive journey from news novices to media masters. Building New Skills and Ideas Each lesson plan’s format is inspired by the 5-E’s constructivist instructional model (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate). A Cross-Disciplinary, Standards-Driven Toolbox The challenges today’s media landscape poses for our students — and for all of us — can be daunting. — The NewseumED Team
Evaluating News Sources | Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Evaluating news sources is one of the more contentious issues out there. People have their favorite news sources and don’t like to be told that their news source is untrustworthy. For fact-checking, it’s helpful to draw a distinction between two activities: News Gathering, where news organizations do investigative work, calling sources, researching public documents, checking and publishing facts, e.g. the getting the facts of Bernie Sanders involvement in the passage of several bills.News Analysis, which takes those facts and strings them into a larger narrative, such as “Senator Sanders an effective legislator behind the scenes” or “Senator Sanders largely ineffective Senator behind the scenes.” Most newspaper articles are not lists of facts, which means that outfits like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times do both news gathering and news analysis in stories. Narratives are a different matter.
NAMLE: Coronavirus Resources
We’ve curated a collection of resources exclusively from our Organizational Partners designed to support educators, parents, and students during the pandemic lockdown. Misinformation Resources Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center NewsGuard’s new Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center ranks and lists news and information sites in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany that have published false information about the virus. Get Smart about COVID-19 Misinformation As part of an effort to combat misinformation about COVID-19 and the new strain of coronavirus that causes it, the News Literacy Project created this resource page to provide accurate information about the pandemic and free resources to educators and the general public. COVID-19: Fact and Fiction In this article, Bites Media breaks down what COVID-19 is, why it matters, and dispels some common myths about the virus. Educator Resources How Teachers Can Navigate School Closures Due to the Coronavirus
A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science
A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science Click to enlarge A brief detour from chemistry, branching out into science in general today. This graphic looks at the different factors that can contribute towards ‘bad’ science – it was inspired by the research I carried out for the recent aluminium chlorohydrate graphic, where many articles linked the compound to causing breast cancer, referencing scientific research which drew questionable conclusions from their results. The vast majority of people will get their science news from online news site articles, and rarely delve into the research that the article is based on. EDIT: Updated to version 2! EDIT 2 (April 2015): Update to version 3, taking into account a range of feedback and also sprucing up the design a little. Support Compound Interest on Patreon for post previews and more! The graphic in this article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Like this: Like Loading...
INFO ou INTOX °23 : Comment détecter les manipulations graphiques sur une photo
Sur Internet, une image vous interroge, vous avez des doutes sur sa véracité : c'est un bon début. Mais prouver que cette image a été manipulée, c'est encore mieux. Dans cet épisode de Info ou Intox, nous présentons un outil en ligne gratuit qui permet de repérer les retouches dans une image. On les appelle les outils "Forensics" (forensiques en français). Ils permettent de mener l'enquête et d'analyser graphiquement si une photo a subi une modification avec un logiciel de retouche photo. en installant le plugin InViden vous rendant à cette adresse : Reveal Mklab ou Fotoforensics "Pour maîtriser cet outil, il faut s'entrainer !" Pour bien utiliser cet outil, il est nécessaire de voir plusieurs exemples. Pour revoir tous les épisodes de Info ou Intox, cliquez sur l'image ci-dessous :
How Google Creates Alternative Reality
COVFEFE – Google deleted this word from its Arabic-English dictionary after President Trump used it in his tweet on May 31, 2017. The original translation of this word (more accurately rendered in English as “cov fe’fe”) was “I will stand up“. Trump used it in a tweet “Despite constant negative press covfefe“, when he came back from Saudi Arabia. Few hours later, he tweeted “Who can figure out the true meaning of “covfefe” ??? Enjoy!” This deletion served the main prong of the coup at that time – the attempt to declare President Trump mentally unfit and to remove him under cover of the XXV Amendment. “Leaked documents, titled ‘covfefe Translate Easter egg,’ reveal how Google raced to scrub the Arabic word “covfefe” and it’s meaning “I will stand up.” For further proof we’re already living in a totally distorted misinformation carnival, recall that Hillary Clinton chimed in the next day, quipping that covfefe was ‘a hidden message to the Russians.’ “Video unavailable.
