Learning To Spot Fake News: Start With A Gut Check : NPR Ed Which of these statements seems more trustworthy to you? 1) Americans are drowning in a tsunami of ignorance! There is a conspiracy at the highest levels to replace all knowledge with propaganda and disinformation. 2) A recent Stanford University report found that more than 80 percent of middle schoolers didn't understand that the phrase "sponsored content" meant "advertising." For most of the NPR audience, this shouldn't be a tough question. The first sentence is a florid, mislabeled statement of opinion with an unverifiable, overgeneralized, ideological claim ("conspiracy at the highest levels"). The second is more measured in tone and limited in scope. But these days, statements of all stripes are bombarding us via broadcast and social media. And that is the goal of an educational initiative that will be adopted by 10 universities across the country this spring. Thinking like fact-checkers This new approach seeks to get students thinking like, and doing the work of, fact-checkers.
50 Of The Best Teaching And Learning Apps For 2016 50 Of The Best Teaching And Learning Apps For 2016 by TeachThought Staff What are the best teaching and learning apps for 2016? That’s a good question this post looks to answer. Every year, we put together a collection of what we believe are the best teaching and learning apps for that year. Since we were preparing to release our TeachThought Editor’s Choice: 2016 Best Teaching and Learning Apps–and have used Easelly for years ourselves–we combined the two projects to give you something you can use to guide your #edtech integration this year. Additionally, Easelly has created a free eBook–How to Use Easel.ly in your Classroom–which is a useful tool for teachers integrating Common Core standards, for example, which call for students to work with different mediums to extract key ideas and data. Here are the results, a subjective list of 50 of the best teaching and learning apps for 2016. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a ‘sponsored post.’
How did the news go ‘fake’? When the media went social | Claire Wardle and Hossein Derakhshan The Collins Dictionary word of the year for 2017 is, disappointingly, “fake news”. We say disappointingly, because the ubiquity of that phrase among journalists, academics and policymakers is partly why the debate around this issue is so simplistic. The phrase is grossly inadequate to explain the nature and scale of the problem. (Were those Russian ads displayed at the congressional hearings last week news, for example?) But what’s more troubling, and the reason that we simply cannot use the phrase any more, is that it is being used by politicians around the world as a weapon against the fourth estate and an excuse to censor free speech. Definitions matter. Social media force us to live our lives in public, positioned centre-stage in our very own daily performances. The social networks are engineered so that we are constantly assessing others – and being assessed ourselves. We grudgingly accept these public performances when it comes to our travels, shopping, dating, and dining.
Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine - by Bing I have always been a big fan of Calvin & Hobbes comics, and their author, Bill Watterson. Since discovering the complete script online, as well as a collection of every daily strip on another website, I knew I could make the two reference each other and therefore create a "Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine" for lack of a better name. So I set out to do it. Currently the search only looks for EXACT phrases (not case sensitive), so if you're looking for a comic with the words "balloon" and "airplane" you cannot enter them both, or it will search for "balloon airplane" together. There is one exception though! Please find the credits for everything found on this page below. - Michael "Bing" Yingling Calvin & Hobbes : Copyright & All Rights Reserved by Bill Watterson and Andrews McMeel Universal Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine by Michael "Bing" Yingling Script from Scribd, likely from S.
To think critically, you have to be both analytical and motivated In a world where accusations of "fake news" are thrown around essentially at random, critical thinking would seem to be a must. But this is also a world where the Moon landings are viewed as a conspiracy and people voice serious doubts about the Earth's roundness. Critical thinking appears to be in short supply at a time we desperately need it. One of the proposed solutions to this issue is to incorporate more critical thinking into our education system. But critical thinking is more than just a skill set; you have to recognize when to apply it, do so effectively, and then know how to respond to the results. Valuing rationality The work comes courtesy of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Tomas Ståhl and Jan-Willem van Prooijen at VU Amsterdam. In this new paper, Ståhl and van Prooijen look into how well this sort of critical thinking protects people from bizarre beliefs. Willing but not able? That said, this work shouldn't be viewed as the final word on this topic.
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How Do We Ready Kids for the Next Generation of Fake News? | The Tyee Telling the difference between real and “fake” news can be tricky for even the savviest media critic. But it’s about to get much harder, thanks to new technologies that may be sophisticated enough in manipulating video and audio that you’d be hard-pressed not to believe former U.S. president George W. Bush had a facial tick. WNYC’s RadioLab podcast takes a dire look at these technologies, including new software that the company Adobe hopes will be the Photoshop of audio editing. But the show’s producers were unable to find a media critic, creator or scientist with an easy answer to detecting this new kind of news fakery. The only offered “solution” is to rely on the tech savvy teenagers of today to find the answer. British Columbia’s new kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum has a strong focus on “media literacy.” So how does the new curriculum help prepare our future fake news detectives? And learning shouldn’t end when class gets out. Fewer librarians to teach Teaching the teachers
555+ Words to Describe Plank - Adjectives For Plank Words to Describe ~term~ As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "term" are listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe term suits your needs. If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. Note also that if there aren't many term adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. Describing Words The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
The more outrageous, the better: How clickbait ads make money for fake news sites Robert Shooltz knows that fake news can lead to real money. He runs RealNewsRightNow.com, a website that parodies real news outlets by running absurd posts written to read like factual articles. Working online in his off hours, he uses the site to generate advertising revenue. In an average month, he said, his side hustle can net him about $1,000 a month. It’s not much, but it pays for server space and site promotion, to bring in more readers. "At this point it’s still a side venture and definitely not enough to live off of, but the goal is to get to a point where I can write full time and support myself while doing so," Shooltz told PolitiFact. Some fake news purveyors claim to make big bucks from their faux wares. Paris Wade and Ben Goldman, the two men behind the fake news site LibertyWriters.com, said they made up to $40,000 per month in the runup to the 2016 presidential election. To do it: All you need are some common online services and enough tech savvy to set up your own website.
Facebook, Google Spread Misinformation About Las Vegas Shooting. What Went Wrong? : All Tech Considered Police form a perimeter around the road leading to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino after a gunman killed 59 people and injured more than 500 others when he opened fire Sunday night on a country music concert in Las Vegas. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Police form a perimeter around the road leading to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino after a gunman killed 59 people and injured more than 500 others when he opened fire Sunday night on a country music concert in Las Vegas. In the hours just after the massacre in Las Vegas, some fake news started showing up on Google and Facebook. It appears to be another case of automation working so fast that humans can't keep pace. In this particular case, the man's name first appeared on a message board on a site called 4chan. Shortly after the shooting, police announced that a woman named Marilou Danley was a person of interest. And then there is the scale of what Google and Facebook do.