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- 1. LSBU AND FAKE NEWS Kathy Neville and Alison Skoyles
- 2. 1 Workshops 2 Working with Journalism 3 The Conference
- 3. 1 HEAR-badged Fake News Workshops
- 4. Sure! Shall we do something around Fake News?
- 5. Aim HEAR-accredited workshops Mediate critical thinking and evaluating information skills Differentiation between credible and unreliable resources
- 6. Workshop Series 1 Terminology: filter bubble, echo chamber, confirmation bias 2 CRAAP: currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, purpose 3 Fact-checking: history, online services, text, images and videos
- 7. “After the first seminar, I was able to identify most of the terms used to describe fake news which made me become more conscious of the way I look for facts on the social media, e.g. misinformation, propaganda disinformation, etc. We were being shown examples of news on the Internet which were fake and how to spot them.” (LSBU Student, 2018) ” …one of the main things I think I got from these workshops was tools to help me be more critical in the way in which I evaluate evidence; something which I know I need to work on, not only when reading everyday news or writing an essay, but when evaluating evidence to ensure that the therapy sessions I deliver are proven to benefit my clients…” (LSBU Student, 2018) “ ” It is very important and very useful to have the skill to be able to evaluate what is really the truth. By taking part in these workshops I’m more conscious of the way I look at the news. We often make a mistake and share something without checking the reality of it…” (LSBU Student, 2018) “ ”
- 8. 2 Working with Journalism students
- 9. Shall we ask our Journalism department if they would like to be involved? Of course!
- 10. Journalism at LSBU Newsroom in the Elephant Studios Journalism.London Radio programme
- 11. News programme on Fake News Pre-production meetings Find interviewees! Journalists, bloggers, fact-checkers, academics, politicians … Adam from ProQuest Alastair Donald from the Academy of Ideas Emily Brown from the Conversation
- 13. 3 The Conference
- 14. Shall we host a conference for librarians on fake news? Of course!
- 16. Moodle site Reading List Find out what everyone else is doing!
- 17. The happiest of endings…
- 18. Thank you for listening!
- 19. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- HEAR accreditation requirements: Attendance of 3 x 2 hour workshops Create a poster on terminology in a group in Workshop 1 Evaluate a news story using information literacy criteria in Workshop 2 500 word reflection
- real world recent examples of fake news stories and fact-checking resources Students will use information evaluating resources such as the IFLA tool and ESCAPE to investigate the credibility of online and print news resources. Students will learn how to locate and use reputable fact-checking resources to analyse online material and social media
- Team of 4 Information Skills Advisers Individual Research Collation/Collection of info on Fake News on shared document Regular meetings to chisel out a structure for workshops