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~ discover what misinformation is and explore ways to combat it.
~ learn to recognize misleading news, statistics, graphs, infographics, and more.
~ understand basic fallacies and how to detect bias.
~ appreciate how fast information spreads on social media and gather tools to help you become a stronger digital citizen.
~ utilize the scientific method to become a critical thinker in the Information Age.
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1. T
Deborah Kozdras: University of South Florida
Stavros Center
Visual Texts and
Deborah Kozdras:
dkozdras@usf.edu
USF Stavros Center
Fake News and Finding Facts
SCATTER
Jodi B. Pushkin
jpushkin@tampabay.com
Tampa Bay Times NIE
http://tinyurl.com/fakenewsworkshop
2. Unicorns on the Moon?
From the Italian version of
The Great Moon Hoax.
Leopoldo Galluzzo, Altre
scoverte fatte nella luna dal
Sigr. Herschel (Other lunar
discoveries from Signor
Herschel), Napoli,
1836 (Smithsonian Institution
Libraries)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-
institution/great-moon-hoax-was-simply-sign-its-
time-180955761/
3. What is different today?
Figure 1.1. Guardian at the Gate @ Created by James Seaman and Used with Permission
8. Wrote to a friend (Richard Price)
about the power of the news . . .
The ancient Roman and Greek Orators could only speak to the
Number of Citizens capable of being assembled within the Reach
of their Voice: Their Writings had little Effect because the Bulk of
the People could not read. Now by the Press we can speak to
Nations; and good Books & well written Pamphlets have great
and general Influence. The Facility with which the same Truths
may be repeatedly enforcâd by placing them daily in different
Lights, in Newspapers which are every where read, gives a great
Chance of establishing them. And we now find that it is not only
right to strike while the Iron is hot, but that it is very
practicable to heat it by continual Striking.â
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-37-02-0299
9. Yellow Journalism & the Yellow Kid:
Spanish-American War, 1890âs, & Hearst vs. Pulitzer
https://cartoons.osu.edu/digital_albums/yellowkid/1895/1895.htm
14. The Economics of Why They Do It
Monetary Benefits + Psychological Benefits
>
Psychological Costs of Committing the Crime
+
Monetary Opportunity Costs
Probability of arrests and convictions
(Expected Penalty Effect)
http://wmcyberintrusion.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FakeNews2017.pdf
15. How can fake news impact the stock market?
âZhan Chunxin, CEO of China's construction giant Zoomlion, saw his
company's share price drop by 30% because of purposely misleading news
flow airing on CCTV.â
How can fake news impact the stock market?
âZhan Chunxin, CEO of China's construction giant Zoomlion, saw his
company's share price drop by 30% because of purposely misleading news
flow airing on CCTV.â
20. What Can We Do About Confirmation Bias?
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/bias-brain-kqed/why-do-our-brains-love-fake-news-above-the-noise/?#.W4BO_dPwZBx
21. Fast Literacies
⢠What happens when we are surfing the net?
⢠What happens when we surf our news feeds?
⢠What happens when we surf Facebook?
23. Beyond the Checklist . . .Lateral Literacy
https://www.zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
24. Beyond the Checklist . . .to Lateral Literacy
http://www.kappanonline.org/breakstone-need-new-approach-teaching-digital-literacy/
25. Four Moves for Student Fact Checkers
https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/front-matter/web-strategies-for-student-fact-checkers/
26. What Fact Checkers Do
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/feb/12/principles-truth-o-meter-politifacts-methodology-i/
27. Politifactâs Fact Checking Process
⢠Uses on-the-record interviews
⢠Publishes a list of sources with every fact-check.
⢠Attempts to contact the person, website or organization
⢠Emphasizes primary sources and original documentation.
In cases where PolitiFact must cite news reports from other
media that rely on unnamed or unattributed sources we note
that we cannot independently verify their reporting.
28. American Press Institute:
Critical questions for interpreting
media
Type: What kind of content is this?
Source: Who and what are the sources cited and why should I believe them?
Evidence: Whatâs the evidence and how was it vetted?
Interpretation: Is the main point of the piece proven by the evidence?
Completeness: Whatâs missing?
Knowledge: Am I learning every day what I need?
29. âAll our reporters have an editor who supervises them. The number of reporters an editor
supervises varies but generally itâs between four and seven people. When a reporter writes a
story, their editor reads it thoroughly, asks questions, edits for grammar, spelling, clarity and
facts, often asking a reporter where they got a piece of information and questioning something
if it seems not to make sense. They check names, dates or other facts as well. After the
supervising editor finishes the story, it is sent to the copy desk, where at least one copy editor
and sometimes two will also read the story, checking facts (such as names, places, math) and
raising questions if something seems amiss or suspicious in a story. Thatâs the process that we
go through for most routine stories.
âIf the story is highly complex or significant, or we plan to run it on the front page,
especially the Sunday front page, it will almost always go through additional layers of editing.
The first editorâs supervisor might read it, and on many occasions. I will review the story or our
executive editor will. Stories that are running on the Sunday front page (our most read
addition) are always read by an assistant managing editor and either me or the executive
editor.
âThe process is somewhat compressed when breaking news is published online. If the story
is one that is ongoing and developing -- someone has just been arrested on a murder charge â
the reporter will write the article and we have an editor read it before publication. Sometimes
that is not their supervising editor but another trusted editor who is free at the moment the
story needs to be published. After the story goes online, it is updated throughout the day by
the reporter, re-edited by their editor and then when the story is not going to be updated any
more before print publication, it goes through the editing process above, where it gets a final
read from the assigning editor and goes to be read by the copy desk.â
-- Jennifer Orsi, managing editor Tampa Bay Times
32. Key
Questions
to Ask:
⢠Who made the message?
⢠Who is the target audience (how
do you know)?
⢠Who paid for this? Or who gets
paid if you read or respond to this
message?
⢠Who might benefit or be harmed
by this?
⢠What important info is left out or
missing?
⢠Is this credible (and what makes
you think so)?
⢠Is the main point proven by
verifiable evidence?
34. Identify the source!
Look for a byline
â who wrote it?
Is this a real
person? More
importantly, are
they credible?
Who owns the
webpage?
35. Identify the source!
Look for a byline â who
wrote it?
Is this a real
person? More
importantly, are
they credible?
Who owns the
webpage?
Who originally wrote
or said the information
being referenced?
36. Identify the source!
Look for a byline â who
wrote it?
Is this a real
person? More
importantly, are
they credible?
Who owns the webpage?
Who originally wrote or said
the information being
referenced?
Who took the photo/video
images?
Are they timely?
Have they been
changed/edited?
(TIP: Using a reverse image
search on Google can give
you an idea of whether the
image is real.)
38. Sites that get paid to do this leg work for you:
ďźFactCheck.org
ďźPolitifacts.com
ďźWashington Post Fact
Checker
ďźSnopes.com
ďźUSAFacts.org (beta)
ďźAllsides
41. Times NIE services
⢠The Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education program
provides free resources to Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough,
Manatee, Pasco and Pinellas counties.
ď The TBT NIE provides newspapers, electronic licenses and
curriculum guides to classrooms around Tampa Bay each
year
ď TBT NIE hosts teacher workshops
ď TBT NIE provides teachers with free lesson plans in print
and online â www.tampabay.com/nie.
43. Using the Digital Edition
You and your students can read the
Tampa Bay Times, just as it appears in the
printed edition, from the convenience of
your computer, phone, tablet or
electronic reading device.
ďś Classwork
ďś Homework
ďś Research
ďś Writing models
ďś Grammar and math exercises
44. Accessing the Digital Edition
Teachers, students, and parents should use the same user
name and password:
ď Go to tampbay.com/nie
ď Click log in here
ď Enter user name
ď Enter password
ď Select preferred edition
ď Click remember me box
ď Click Log in
47. Read like a reporter.
Write like a detective.
Determine evidence and
claims.
⢠What evidence does
author provide?
⢠What claims does
author make
implicitly?
⢠Using the evidence,
create an argument.