Group items tagged hoax - teacher-librarians

10 Hilarious Hoax Sites to Test Website Evaluation | TeachBytes - 0 views

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TruthOrFiction.com-Is that forwarded email Truth or Fiction? Research into stories, sca... - 10 views

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Aussie's Jar'Edo Wens prank sets new record as Wikipedia's longest-running hoax - 16 views

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Wikipedia hoaxes

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Indirect Tracking of Drop Bears Using GNSS Technology - 4 views

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hoax_websites drop_bears Australian_Geographer GNSS

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Cathy Oxley on 17 Jan 13

A hoax website / document.

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86 Viral Images From 2014 That Were Totally Fake - 37 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 30 Nov 15 - No Cached

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City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Crap Detection 101 - 3 views

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information_literacy Research crap_detection web_evaluation

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Fran Bullington on 09 Jul 10

"The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it's up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, scams, urban legends, and hoaxes. "Crap detection," as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: "spamming.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it's up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, scams, urban legends, and hoaxes. "Crap detection," as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: "spamming.""</div>

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Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote - 1 views

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shared by Ann Sperske on 12 May 09 - Cached

Ann Sperske on 12 May 09

When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.</div>

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Internet Evaluation - The CRAAP Test - 22 views

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jenibo on 01 Apr 14

Very good 25 slide presentation on Internet evaluation, including hoax website analysis.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Very good 25 slide presentation on Internet evaluation, including hoax website analysis.</div>

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Facebook's fake news tag is here. Who is charged with flagging hoaxes? - CSMonitor.com - 23 views

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shared by Anna Zbacnik on 18 Nov 11 - Cached

Anna Zbacnik on 18 Nov 11

great fake website to evaluate.

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How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark : The New Yorker - 21 views

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shared by Martha Hickson on 27 May 14 - No Cached

Martha Hickson on 27 May 14

"This kind of feedback loop-wherein an error that appears on Wikipedia then trickles to sources that Wikipedia considers authoritative, which are in turn used as evidence for the original falsehood-is a documented phenomenon."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"This kind of feedback loop-wherein an error that appears on Wikipedia then trickles to sources that Wikipedia considers authoritative, which are in turn used as evidence for the original falsehood-is a documented phenomenon."</div>

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