Presentation on news literacy for advisors at the North Carolina Scholastic Media Institute, June 21, 2017. Offers ideas for high school journalism teachers on teaching how to evaluate news stories for credibility before sharing them.
Presentation for North Carolina Scholastic Media Association & World View 2018 K-12 Global Education Symposium, both in Chapel Hill, N.C. October 17-18, 2018.
Teaching Ideas for middle & high school teachers
Presents strategies of how to teach news literacy. Includes definitions of the news landscape (propaganda, disinformation, clickbait,satire, editorials - and corrections!). Plus interactive activities, checklists, idea generation sites. Includes tips on using NC LIVE news resources for news literacy.
Brian Housand, Ph.D.
brianhousand.com
@brianhousand
In 2006, we first learned that even the brightest students were easily fooled by internet hoaxes like the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. While we tried to laugh this off as the folly of misguided youth, a decade later we witnessed the rise of fake news and its impact on the “post-truth” world of 2016 overrun by an ever-growing network of social media. To fight for truth, justice, and yes, even the American way, this session presents a collection of superhero-themed critical thinking activities designed to empower you and your students to conquer the evils of fake news.
We are living in the ear of post-truth. After the surge of fake news stories during the 2016 U.S. elections, several initiatives have been introduced to mitigate the problem like fact-checker organization, artificial intelligence and government aggressive measures. All this are promising, but are we really winning the battle against disinformation?
Presentation for North Carolina Scholastic Media Association & World View 2018 K-12 Global Education Symposium, both in Chapel Hill, N.C. October 17-18, 2018.
Teaching Ideas for middle & high school teachers
Presents strategies of how to teach news literacy. Includes definitions of the news landscape (propaganda, disinformation, clickbait,satire, editorials - and corrections!). Plus interactive activities, checklists, idea generation sites. Includes tips on using NC LIVE news resources for news literacy.
Brian Housand, Ph.D.
brianhousand.com
@brianhousand
In 2006, we first learned that even the brightest students were easily fooled by internet hoaxes like the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. While we tried to laugh this off as the folly of misguided youth, a decade later we witnessed the rise of fake news and its impact on the “post-truth” world of 2016 overrun by an ever-growing network of social media. To fight for truth, justice, and yes, even the American way, this session presents a collection of superhero-themed critical thinking activities designed to empower you and your students to conquer the evils of fake news.
We are living in the ear of post-truth. After the surge of fake news stories during the 2016 U.S. elections, several initiatives have been introduced to mitigate the problem like fact-checker organization, artificial intelligence and government aggressive measures. All this are promising, but are we really winning the battle against disinformation?
Fake news, its ramifications and tools to check this menace.Chetan Thathoo
What is Fake News, statistics related to it, tools to discover fake news,examples across countries, India scenario in the context of fake news, criticism of these tools and the effect of fake news on POTUS elections.
Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center, discussed recent findings about the prevalence and impact of online harassment at the Cyber Health and Safety Virtual Summit: 41% of American adults have been harassed online and 66% have witnessed harassment. The findings come from the Center’s recent report on these issues.
What is 'fake news', why it matters and what we can do to help curb it. How do we build brands in a post-truth era? How to build emotional connections, respond in a crisis and power start-ups with social media
Social media and news: Key trends in networked informationJesse Holcomb
How people discover, share, discuss and interact with news on social platforms; a compilation of findings from several years of Pew Research Center data.
This training was developed for the needs of a library system in Pennsylvania. This was an overview of political action and training library staff, administration, trustees, and boards.
Find out more about working with PC Sweeney to present to your library board, association, or staff training day at https://pcsweeney.com/speaking-at-your-event/
Fake news is untrue information presented as news. It often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity or making money through advertising revenue. Once common in print, the prevalence of fake news has increased with the rise of social media, especially the Facebook News Feed
I was recently asked to put together a presentation on the fake news phenomenon for discussions with leading journalists and media institutions in a developing country, with extremely poor media literacy but strong growth around social media use, on how to both identify misleading content and also stem its flow, reach and influence.
Download the full presentation as a PowerPoint (with embedded videos) or as an Apple Keynote file, here - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxbk4wYolphwcVk4bV85aEFtYXc
Fake news, its ramifications and tools to check this menace.Chetan Thathoo
What is Fake News, statistics related to it, tools to discover fake news,examples across countries, India scenario in the context of fake news, criticism of these tools and the effect of fake news on POTUS elections.
Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center, discussed recent findings about the prevalence and impact of online harassment at the Cyber Health and Safety Virtual Summit: 41% of American adults have been harassed online and 66% have witnessed harassment. The findings come from the Center’s recent report on these issues.
What is 'fake news', why it matters and what we can do to help curb it. How do we build brands in a post-truth era? How to build emotional connections, respond in a crisis and power start-ups with social media
Social media and news: Key trends in networked informationJesse Holcomb
How people discover, share, discuss and interact with news on social platforms; a compilation of findings from several years of Pew Research Center data.
This training was developed for the needs of a library system in Pennsylvania. This was an overview of political action and training library staff, administration, trustees, and boards.
Find out more about working with PC Sweeney to present to your library board, association, or staff training day at https://pcsweeney.com/speaking-at-your-event/
Fake news is untrue information presented as news. It often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity or making money through advertising revenue. Once common in print, the prevalence of fake news has increased with the rise of social media, especially the Facebook News Feed
I was recently asked to put together a presentation on the fake news phenomenon for discussions with leading journalists and media institutions in a developing country, with extremely poor media literacy but strong growth around social media use, on how to both identify misleading content and also stem its flow, reach and influence.
Download the full presentation as a PowerPoint (with embedded videos) or as an Apple Keynote file, here - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxbk4wYolphwcVk4bV85aEFtYXc
Carol Hollier from the University of Nottingham presented on fake news coverage, and the resources librarians had developed to equip students to combat it.
Teaching and Learning in a Post-Truth Wor.docxerlindaw
Teaching
and Learning in a
Post-Truth
World
It’s time for schools to upgrade and
reinvest in media literacy lessons.
Renee Hobbs
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n the summer of 2016, I found a startling
announcement in my Facebook feed from
WTOE 5 News, saying, “Pope Francis Shocks
World, Endorses Donald Trump for President,
Issues Statement.”
It looked so real that I was tempted to share it
with my friends. But before I did that, I did some
research to confirm the statement, and that’s
how I learned that WTOE 5 was not a real
news outlet. Pope Francis did not endorse
any American presidential candidate.
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But in those heated days before the 2016 election, nearly one
million people did share that particular story, making it one of
the top so-called “fake news” stories of 2016 (Ritchie, 2016). And
of course, there were hundreds of other examples of false and
misleading information circulating online as the fake news phe-
nomenon spread like wildfire, not just here in the United States,
but in Germany, Italy, and around the world.
Since then, there’s been a lot of talk among educators about the
importance of teaching students to critically analyze news and
information. The public is gaining awareness of our vulnerability
to media manipulation. Researchers have found that most adults
can’t accurately judge the truth or falsity of an online news story
because they assume that content that aligns with their existing
beliefs is automatically true (Goodfellow, 2017).
So-called “fake news” is rising in visibility and influence due
to the attention economy, a concept first developed by Herbert
A. Simon in 1971. Many choices are available to us as both con-
sumers and creators of media, and, sadly, it seems as if people
have adopted a problematic post-truth attitude: If it’s entertaining
or meshes with their own views, who really cares if it’s true? This
makes it easy for creators of “fake news” in a world where digital
content is cheap to produce. These sites use sensationalism (sex,
violence, children, animals, and the mysterious unknown) to
profit from viral sharing, where more clicks equals more revenue.
And when articles include emotionally inflamed or intense words
or images, they spread quickly and reach a larger audience.
Not only are we seeing more emotionally manipulative online
content, but it is also more challenging to find and validate the
source of the information we consume. Because most Americans
get their news from social media, we experience content as
unbundled snippets, without source information or context
clues to assist in interpretation. These are all good reasons to
implement media literacy education in middle and high schools.
New evidence reported in the American Educational Research
Journal by Joseph Kahne and his colleagues shows that teens
and young adults who have had some exposure to media lit-.
The Failure of Skepticism: Rethinking Information Literacy and Political Pol...Chris Sweet
Fake news has been shown to spread far faster than facts on social media platforms. Rampant fake news has led to deep political polarization and the undermining of basic democratic institutions. Skepticism is an important component of information literacy and has often been pointed to as the antidote to the fake news epidemic. Why are skepticism and information literacy failing so terrifically in this post-truth era?
The presenters will summarize research drawn from the fields of psychology and mass communication that shows just how hardwired people are to believe information from their own “tribes” and resist outside contrary information.
How we think about and teach skepticism and information literacy is in need of an overhaul for the twenty-first century. This webinar will introduce some ideas for that overhaul and will also provide practical classroom activities that do a better job of addressing the cognitive aspects of information literacy and skepticism.
CILIP Cymru Wales Conference 2019: Lessons from 15 Years of Collaboration bet...CILIP
Dr Stephen Thornton's presentation:
This paper will explore aspects of a fifteen year collaboration between the Department of Politics at Cardiff University (latterly, the Department of Politics and International Relations) and Cardiff University Libraries to encourage awareness of information literacy amongst students (and staff). This will include drawing connections between the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) subject benchmark statements for Politics and IR and competencies identified in a widely recognised information literacy framework. At the heart of this paper will be a comparison between the results of two surveys - one from 2009 and another from 2017 - designed to explore students' information behaviours on entering university.
Fake News, Real Teens: Problems and PossibilitiesTom Mackey
This presentation is part of a panel held at the Albany Public Library in Albany, New York on Sunday November 4, 2018. It explore the emergence of false and misleading information in a post-truth world and how metaliteracy is a teaching and learning solution to empower individuals to be informed consumers and creative producers of information in a digital world.
Only Connect: Reaching New Audiences via Public Relations & External Communic...Kara Gavin
Presented to faculty, staff and students on Sept. 15, 2016, as part of the University of Michigan Medical School's Communicating Science series. Addresses how academics can and should engage in the public sphere directly and with the help of institutional communicators. (https://medicine.umich.edu/medschool/research/events/public-relations-external-audience-communication )
A recording of my talk is available at https://medicine.umich.edu/medschool/research/office-research/research-news-events/communicating-science-seminar-series
Presentation to seniors at the Robert & Pearl Seymour Center in Chapel Hill, March 2018. Addresses how to identify accurate news sources and confirm which news stories are credible.
Instruction for doing research online for UNC's Media & Journalism Research Methods course, MEJO 701. These slides were used for the MA course, but they are relevant to the PhD students as well.
Help finding articles for your literature review for MATC 716 with Dr. Anne Johnston. Tips for searching EBSCO & how to make an appointment with Stephanie.
Help finding articles for your literature review for MATC 716 with Dr. Anne Johnston. Tips for searching EBSCO & how to make an appointment with Stephanie.
Library presentation to students in JOMC 101: The Media Revolution: From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg @ the School of Media & Journalism.
Covers: the CRAAP test, good Google searches, and library resources that are better than Google!
Jones, Lynne and Stephanie Willen Brown. "Does Forcing Students to Ask for Help Work? Assessing the Effect of Requiring Term Paper Consultations." Librarians' Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill annual meeting, March 2015.
Stephanie has worked with students in Jim Hefner's JOMC 424 (Electronic Media Management) class, spending more and more time with his students. In spring 2014, he began *requiring* students to meet with a librarian, rather than encouraging them to do so, as they prepared to write their 12-15 page research paper. He had tried all manner of encouragement with little success; requiring students to meet with a librarian was much more successful.
In fall 2014, we received IRB approval to survey Hefner's students to assess if their meeting with us had an effect on their confidence in writing the paper (somewhat) and they perceived it would have an effect on meeting with a librarian in the future (they said it did).
This presentation highlights our research findings and discusses our plans for future interactions with Hefner's students.
Takeaway message: Tell faculty to require students to meet with a librarian!
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
The French Revolution Class 9 Study Material pdf free download
News: Credible or Click-bait?
1. Credible or Click bait?
NCSMI, June 21, 2017
Stephanie Willen Brown
Director, Park Library @ UNC’s
School of Media & Journalism
Image from https://thenounproject.com/term/journalist/813630/
2. Writing Prompt
• Do you think you could spot fake stories?
• Why or why not?
• Have you ever been factually fooled by a social
media post?
Image from: https://thenounproject.com/term/write/774211/
3. What Are We Talking About?
Hoax Propaganda
Disinformation /
Disinformatzya /
Dezinformatsia /
Dezinformatsiya
Sponsored
Content
Fake News *Lügenpresse *
Truthful
Hyperbole *
Manipulated
Content *
False
Connection*
False
Context *
Satire
Mistakes
Corrections
* Not defined in any Oxford dictionaries, as of March 29, 2017
4. What is the Problem?
• Fake news
• Alternative facts
• Opinion / editorials
• Evaluating information
• Sponsored content
• News literacy
• Information literacy
• Media literacy
• (Social) media literacy
What is the Solution?
Instruction
16. Resources
• Brown, Stephanie W. “Checking Facts.” UNC School of
Media & Journalism, April 5, 2017.
http://guides.lib.unc.edu/mejo153/checkingFacts
• Further resources on overcoming fake news
• Lesson plans
• Recommended fact checking sites
• Sources for this presentation
• Articles & podcasts about News Literacy:
https://pinboard.in/u:CogSciLibrarian/t:NewsLiteracy/
Editor's Notes
Activities & discussion
Activities discussion
How you can think about issues,
How you can teach students to think about issues
conspiracy - definition of conspiracy in English | Oxford Dictionaries
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/conspiracy
A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
Are ‘Mutated’ Daisies Really Caused by Fukushima Radiation?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150723-fukushima-mutated-daisies-flowers-radiation-science/
“plant scientists aren’t so sure. It’s possible the radiation could be involved, but there are a number of other explanations as well, they say.
“Twitter user @san_kaido first shared the picture in late May, from Nasushiobara City. That’s about 108 miles (173 kilometers) southwest of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, which was disabled by the March 2011 tsunami and leaked radiation into the environment.”
…
“It’s possible the flower deformity could have been induced by radiation, says Jeffrey J. Doyle, a professor of plant biology at Cornell University. However, “this is a pretty common mutation in daisies that I’ve seen sporadically in various places not associated with radioactivity,” he says.
“There are many factors that can cause the oddity, Doyle says, from chemicals to diseases, a hormone imbalance, or random mutations to inherited genes. This particular malformation has been seen in numerous species of the world’s 20,000 members of the daisy family, from Holland to Idaho.
“He's not ruling out a role for Fukushima: “It wouldn’t surprise me to find mutations of all types, including this one, in places that have higher than average levels of mutagenic agents, such as a radioactive site or toxic waste dump.””
…
“Beth Krizek, a plant biologist at the University of South Carolina, agrees that radiation is a possible cause of the flower oddity, but says there are many other possible explanations.
““It’s not that rare,” Krizek says of the odd daisies. “You could occasionally see this just in plants growing in your garden.” “
Middle school students could not tell that the third box was sponsored content. Even when they did, they didn’t realize it didn’t count as a news article because it was sponsored.
News & Observer 06/18/17 @ 10 am
http://www.newsobserver.com
As part of Stanford University’s study of students and online news, it asked middle schoolers which of the four tweets, above, were the most trustworthy. More than half of the 204 students responding trusted Lisa Bloom’s tweet more the one from NPR, noting it had the most information. A sample student response: ‘The best tweet for information is the first one because it actually shows him resigning in a picture, and it gives a caption saying that he is resigning.’ PHOTO: STANFORD HISTORY EDUCATION GROUP
Who Is Lisa Bloom? Donald Trump's Accuser Is Being Represented By A Powerful Attorney
Bloom is the daughter of legendary women's rights attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing several of the other women who have accused Trump of sexually assaulting them over the years.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/192971-who-is-lisa-bloom-donald-trumps-accuser-is-being-represented-by-a-powerful-attorney
https://www.wsj.com/articles/most-students-dont-know-when-news-is-fake-stanford-study-finds-1479752576#livefyre-toggle-SB11094844722466913615704582450552794350544
Quoted in Wall Street Journal.
As part of Stanford University’s study of students and online news, it asked middle schoolers to give reasons they might not trust the article by a Bank of America executive on financial planning. Almost 70% of 200 students responding didn't highlight the authorship as a reason for mistrust. A sample response: ‘I wouldn’t trust it because some millennials do have good money habits.’ PHOTO: STANFORD HISTORY EDUCATION GROUP
https://www.wsj.com/articles/most-students-dont-know-when-news-is-fake-stanford-study-finds-1479752576#livefyre-toggle-SB11094844722466913615704582450552794350544
Stanford Used this site – objectivity of author?
PRESENTED BY BANK OF AMERICA
Do Millennials Have Good Money Habits?
http://web.archive.org/web/20150220072156/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-plepler/millennial-money-habits_b_6350612.html?
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Global Corporate Social Responsibility and Consumer Policy Executive, Bank of America®
http://www.dailywire.com/news/16157/insane-chris-pratt-forced-apologize-deaf-people-ben-shapiro#
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/5/chris-pratt-apologizes-for-posting-video-that-some/
(found by Sara Salinas, 05/11/17)
Stop worrying about fake news. What comes next will be much worse | Jonathan Albright | Opinion | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/09/fake-news-technology-filters