Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Fake News Edition | On the Media BROOKE GLADSTONE: Drawing a distinction between fake and real news is going to be hard for those Facebook and Google employees tasked with bird dogging offending sites, but it shouldn’t be so hard for you, the consumer. Melissa Zimdars, professor of communication and media at Merrimack College, has made a list of more than a hundred problematic news sites, along with tips for sorting out the truthful from the troublesome. She got into the fake news sorting racket after a hot tip. MELISSA ZIMDARS: Someone alerted me to the fact that when you searched for the popular vote on Google, the first Google news item that came up was a fake news website saying that Hillary Clinton lost the popular vote. BROOKE GLADSTONE: Mm-hmm. MELISSA ZIMDARS: And that's when I was like, yeah, we need to teach our students [LAUGHS] how to navigate this. BROOKE GLADSTONE: Tell me what the reaction’s been to the doc? BROOKE GLADSTONE: So you’re getting trolled. MELISSA ZIMDARS: Majorly trolled, yes.
Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world We were guaranteed a free press, We were not guaranteed a neutral or a true press. We can celebrate the journalistic freedom to publish without interference from the state. We can also celebrate our freedom to share multiple stories through multiple lenses. But it has always been up to the reader or viewer to make the reliability and credibility decisions. It is up to the reader or viewer to negotiate truth. News literacy is complicated. Professional journalists themselves face new practical and ethical challenges relating to anonymity, privacy and safety, as well as reliability in their attempts to verify sources of breaking news from social media and user-generated content in all media formats. Even news that is vetted by editors and publishers sometimes emerges from that process a bit processed, perhaps leaning in a particular direction. And word choice itself is connected to truth. On news literacy Our kids need new types of filters. s disciplines. What’s going on? Fake news
How to choose your news - Damon Brown | TED-Ed How the media landscape has changed Media visionary Clay Shirky gave a TED Talk on how the media landscape has changed. “The moment we’re living through, the moment our historical generation is living through, is the largest increase in expressive capability in human history.” In other words, the amount of information we are capable of capturing is unprecedented. As a result, we need new techniques to filter through the information and need to work much harder than previous generation to better understand our world. Watch Clay Shirky’s fascinating media discussion on TED-Ed. Understanding social media The TED Book “Our Virtual Shadow: Why We Are Obsessed with Documenting Our Lives Online” discusses the challenges of social media turning every day folks into journalists. You can read an excerpt of Our Virtual Shadow on the TED blog. Journalism can be much more than reporting.
External Resources | Northstar Digital Literacy This page includes a variety of publicly available learning resources that may support additional practice with Northstar standards. These resources were not created by Northstar. Since we now offer online learning modules and a comprehensive classroom curriculum, this list of external resources is not being actively maintained by our team. We have developed 1:1 Digital Literacy Skills Volunteer Tutor Plans, resources to support volunteer tutors working with learners one-on-one. Please note, we now provide comprehensive classroom curricula for each assessment, which have been created by Northstar - these curricula are available only through Northstar testing locations. In the resources below, note that links to a text resource, links to a media resource, and links to an activity resource. Back to List Basic Computer Skills 1 Distinguish between different types of devices (tablets, desktop and laptop computers) 10 Access and control audio output features (volume, mute, speakers and headphones)
Evaluating Websites - AndySpinks.com C.A.R.S. Checklist for Evaluating Internet Sources You should evaluate every website you use for research or for personal information. Ask yourself the following questions about each site and try to use only those that have the best evidence of credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and support. Download a Printable Version (PDF) Goal: A source that is created by a person or organization who knows the subject and who cares about its quality Is there a publishing or sponsoring organization? Goal: A source with information that is current, complete, and correct Does the information on the site agree with other sources? Goal: A source that is truthful and unbiased Does the author, host, publisher, or sponsor have a bias? Goal: A source with verifiable sources of information Are the sources listed? Ideally, information such as the author, host organization, and publication date will be easily located at either the top or bottom of the page. Adapted with permission from: Harris, Robert.
Introducing This Is Fake, Slate’s tool for stopping fake news on Facebook. One of the more extreme symptoms of media dysfunction in the past several months has been the ascendance of “fake news”—fabricated news stories that purport to be factual. The phenomenon is not altogether novel, but the scale at which it is now being produced and consumed is unprecedented. A BuzzFeed data analysis found that viral stories falsely claiming that the Pope had endorsed Donald Trump, that Hillary Clinton was implicated in the murder of an FBI agent, that Clinton had sold weapons to ISIS, all received more Facebook engagement than the most popular news stories from established outlets such as the New York Times and CNN. Made-up stories with a liberal slant made the rounds as well, although the evidence suggests they propagated less widely. At a time when trust in the media is at an all-time low and political polarization is intensifying, fake news is hardly the only pox afflicting our democracy. How It Works What Counts as Fake So how do we decide which stories count as fake?
EJ1190637 - Media Literacy & the AASL Standards, Knowledge Quest, 2018 School librarians must teach media literacy and be on the forefront of defining what media literacy is and why it is important for students and communities. The competencies involved in information and media literacy are interwoven throughout the frameworks in the American Association of School Librarians' (AASL) "National School Library Standards." This article shares areas in which aspects of media literacy are addressed in AASL Standards. Some examples include: (1) In the Include Shared Foundation's Think Domain, learners are asked to contribute to a balanced perspective when participating in a learning community by adopting a discerning stance toward points of view and opinions expressed in information resources and learning products; (2) In the Curate Shared Foundation's Think Domain, learners are asked to act on an information need by making critical choices about which information sources to use in their work. American Association of School Librarians.
Real Solutions to Fake News: How Libraries Help Skip to main content You are here: Home » Activities and Groups » Information Society » News » Real Solutions to Fake News: How Libraries Help Search form 20 August 2017 From the Annual Conference Real Solutions to Fake News: How Libraries Help Русский | Español | Deutsch | 简体中文 | français | العربية Freedoms of access to information and expression online are at risk. For IFLA, neither of these solutions is desirable. IFLA’s infographic has been a big success. The Library of the Finnish Parliament introduced the infographic at the Parliament “Committee of the Future” meeting, and it has featured in a number of articles and essays. In Vietnam, library instructors at the University of Danang used the infographic to impart information literacy classes and share the risks associated with the inability to recognize a piece of news as fake. In Sweden, librarians exhibited translations of the poster in Swedish, English, Arabic, and Romanian at maker party events. List all IFLA news