On student scrutiny: two strategies We’re focusing a lot of attention these days of helping students determine credibility. For many of us, this is not a hot new topic. I dug around a bit and dusted off a couple of tools that, I think, stand the test of time. You are welcome to make copies and retool them for you own needs. This Current Events Analysis Scaffold forces thinking beyond the Ws. And then there’s my magic bullet. Evaluative, annotated works cited sections require and inspire the development of critical research and evaluation skills. Here’s the document we used to guide students through their annotations: Evaluative, Annotated Works Cited (High School) Annotations frequently include brief, two-sentence summaries. Check with your teacher to see which of the following elements you should include in your annotations: Author’s credentials (these may be contextual–relative to the format, situation or information need)Intended audience (For whom was this work produced and why?) Example of an evaluative annotation: Save
Learn to Discern: Media Literacy Trainer's Manual People are flooded with misinformation, disinformation, manipulative content, and junk information that drown out credible information. Our Learn to Discern approach teaches the skills that people need in order to identify and reject manipulative content and select credible, objective information. The Learn to Discern: Media Literacy Trainer’s Manual (PDFs in English and Georgian) is a curriculum for educators in formal and informal education environments. It provides step-by-step guidance and interactive exercises for helping learners of all ages recognize why and how manipulative content works and gain skills to reject half-truths, clickbait, hate speech, and fakes. These issues are especially important for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and preparing citizens for elections. Topics include: The information and media space and its features: Navigating different types of platforms and content, distinguishing between facts and opinions, recognizing professional journalism, and more.
Fonds sonores Découvert simultanément en 1877 par Charles Cros en France, et par Thomas Alva Edison aux Etats-Unis, le principe de l’enregistrement sonore et de sa restitution fait partie des inventions qui ont révolutionné nos pratiques culturelles. Dès les années 1880, des ethnologues, des linguistes mettent à profit le phonographe pour enregistrer des chants, des musiques, des parlers traditionnels. Ils constituent ainsi des archives sonores, mémoire de l’humanité. Archives sonores inédites d’un côté, édition phonographique « commerciale » de l’autre : tels sont les deux pôles qui structurent et caractérisent la collection sonore du département de l’Audiovisuel de la BnF. Gallica permet ainsi d’entendre le témoignage des voix célèbres enregistrées par les Archives de la Parole, comme celles du capitaine Dreyfus, de Maurice Barrès…, ou le « folklore musical » du Musée de la Parole et du Geste qui succède aux Archives de la Parole en 1928.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | The Collection Not all scientific studies are created equal - David H. "A popular study from the 1970s that helps sell millions of dollars' worth of fish oil supplements worldwide is deeply flawed, according to a new study being published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. The original study, by Danish physicians H.O. Bang and D.J. Dyerburg, claimed Inuit in Greenland had low rates of heart disease because of their diet, which is rich in fish oil and omega-3 fatty acids from eating fish and blubber from whales and seals." But there's more! Read more here.David is a founding partner of Innovative Science Solutions, LLC (ISS), a team of scientists, regulatory strategists, and consultants providing a wide range of fully integrated services to industry and counsel.
5 Activities to teach your students how to spot fake news - NEO BLOG How to spot fake news? These two words have trended in the last decade as a way of describing news and information that is false. It is not as simple as that, though. Other words like misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, satire, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories also describe something very similar and have been around for much longer. Stories that are not true (making people believe something entirely false);Stories that are partially true (a deliberate attempt to convince a reader of a viewpoint using skewed information or opinion);A tactic used to discredit other people’s views (to make another person’s opinion or even facts appear to someone else to be false, even when there is no sign that this is the case). What all three descriptions have in common is the attempt to confuse and misdirect. Five activities to teach students how to spot fake news Students must learn skills and capabilities to check the quality, bias, and background of news they encounter daily. 1. 2. 3. A. 4.
Les grands discours L'histoire par les cartes : une série de 14 films documentaires sur les cartes portulans (BNF) La Bibliothèque nationale de France (@laBnF) et CNRS images présentent « Au cœur des cartes », une série de courts films documentaires sur les cartes portulans, ces cartes marines manuscrites sur parchemins, outils essentiels à partir du XVe siècle pour la maîtrise des mers et la diffusion des résultats des explorations européennes. De la carte marine la plus ancienne connue – la Carte Pisane – jusqu’aux cartes hollandaises du XVIIe siècles, en passant par le somptueux Atlas Miller, quatorze cartes conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de France sont présentées en détail et rassemblées dans cette galerie thématique. Plus de 4 000 cartes anciennes sont accessibles par le moteur de recherche Gallica (avec un accès par continent et par siècle). Une page donne un accès direct aux portulans, globes et cartes du monde entier classés par région (Europe, France, Afrique, Amériques, Japon). A signaler aussi une belle exposition sur les cartes marines.
News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2017 As of August 2017, two-thirds (67%) of Americans report that they get at least some of their news on social media – with two-in-ten doing so often, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center. This is a modest increase since early 2016, when (during the height of the presidential primaries) 62% of U.S. adults reported getting news from social media. While a small increase overall, this growth is driven by more substantial increases among Americans who are older, less educated, and nonwhite. This study is based on a survey conducted August 8-21, 2017, with 4,971 U.S. adults who are members of Pew Research Center’s nationally representative American Trends Panel. For the first time in the Center’s surveys, more than half (55%) of Americans ages 50 or older report getting news on social media sites. That is 10 percentage points higher than the 45% who said so in 2016. Furthermore, about three-quarters of nonwhites (74%) get news on social media sites, up from 64% in 2016.
Guide To Using Reverse Image Search For Investigations Reverse image search is one of the most well-known and easiest digital investigative techniques, with two-click functionality of choosing “Search Google for image” in many web browsers. This method has also seen widespread use in popular culture, perhaps most notably in the MTV show Catfish, which exposes people in online relationships who use stolen photographs on their social media. However, if you only use Google for reverse image searching, you will be disappointed more often than not. Limiting your search process to uploading a photograph in its original form to just images.google.com may give you useful results for the most obviously stolen or popular images, but for most any sophisticated research project, you need additional sites at your disposal — along with a lot of creativity. This guide will walk through detailed strategies to use reverse image search in digital investigations, with an eye towards identifying people and locations, along with determining an image’s progeny.
Quitter l'Europe: une nouvelle vie en Amérique - Expositions L'Amérique est bien connue comme étant un pays d'immigrants ; cette notion est essentielle pour son identité. On peut faire remonter l'émigration européenne vers l'Amérique à 1620 lorsque 100 pèlerins d'Angleterre s'embarquèrent pour un difficile voyage de quatre mois à travers l'océan Atlantique. La plupart des Européens émigrèrent en Amérique entre 1820 et 1920. Ils arrivèrent en deux grandes vagues, venant d'abord de l'Europe du Nord et de l'Ouest au début du 19e siècle, puis de l'Europe méridionale et de l'Europe de l'Est entre 1860 et 1920. Dans l'Amérique du début du 19e siècle, les immigrants travaillèrent comme fermiers et comme domestiques.
Atlas nautique du monde, carte du monde circulaire de l'hémisphère portugais et page de titre La carte présentée ici est extraite de l'Atlas Miller, qui appartient aux collections de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Produit pour le roi du Portugal Manuel Ier en 1519 par les cartographes Pedro Reinel, son fils Jorge Reinel, Lopo Homem et le miniaturiste António de Holanda, l'atlas contient huit cartes sur six feuillets volants, peints des deux côtés. Cette carte (recto du feuillet 1 de l'atlas) montre l'hémisphère portugais. Le verso du feuillet est une page de titre avec les armoiries de Catherine de Médicis.
Red Bank Public Library: Fake News Rsources Nowadays, finding information on an almost limitless number of issues is as easy as opening a browser on your computer or phone, typing the question you want answered on the subject about which you want to learn, and waiting a second or two for a list of links to be displayed. At this point it is up to the individual to determine which of the links contain accurate, verifiable information, and which contain misleading or outright false information. Some of these determinations are easy. However, it is not unusual for purveyors of false information to cleverly disguise their intentions and deceptive content. Although it has always been a wise practice for consumers of news to approach the task with a degree of skepticism, the increase in the number of media outlets has made it necessary to find ways of determining the validity of the information obtained from the source. That is, consumers must develop media literacy. Ideas for E.L.L.s: Finding Reliable Sources in a World of ‘Fake News’
Quiz: How well can you tell factual from opinion statements? Can you tell the difference between factual and opinion news statements? Test your ability to classify 10 news statements as either factual or opinion. Then see how you did in comparison with a nationally representative group of 5,035 randomly selected U.S. adults surveyed online between February 22 and March 4, 2018. The analysis of the findings from the study can be found in the full report, "Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News." Take the quiz and share your results with us on Twitter @PewJournalism.