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victoria waddle

The 9 Worst Fake News Sites - 93 views

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    The 9 worst fake news sites. Can be used in a lesson on digital-literacy or on how to check resources for research/website evaluation, etc.
Martin Burrett

BBC iReporter - 16 views

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    An online resource which puts players in the heart of the newsroom to explore sources and make journalistic decisions and attempt to discover what is real and what is fake news.
Cindy Turner

Fake News: A Library Resource Round-Up - 70 views

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    As librarians everywhere will attest, fake news is not new; fabricated stories have been presented as truth for centuries. But take a divided electorate and add a social media landscape where misinformation is shared with a click, and interest in the topic has soared.
Martin Burrett

How students recognise 'fake news' in digital literacy tasks - 18 views

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    "A recent study revealed students at an international school in Finland significantly outperformed U.S. students on tasks which measure digital literacy in social media and online news. The researchers suggest this may be due to the Finnish and International Baccalaureate curricula's different way of facilitating students' critical thinking skills compared to the US system and curriculum. The results of this study were published in the Journal of Research in International Education in April. Critical thinking is a 21st century skill considered essential for today's students to navigate the Information Age and for their future work life."
mavisschipman

Why Gen Z needs librarians now more than ever | eSchool News - 1 views

  • hey are very often the person responsible for introducing students to new technologies, and are also on the front lines when it comes to connecting students to meaningful sources for research.
  • such as increased access to inappropriate content and fake news.
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      Find some examples of fake news.
Allison Hart

My Fake Wall - MyFakeWall.com - 122 views

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    Create a Fake Facebook Wall and use it to create a biography, historical fiction, or an autobiography. Students can be very creative.
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    Anyone else having trouble uploading images to new Walls?? We could last week, but today get an HTML error... Anyone else?
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    I have. I had to enter compatibility mode in Internet Explorer. There is a button next to the address bar that you click on. It looks like a broken page. Here is a screen shot. That seemed to do it. http://screencast.com/t/OtIYLvy40
Dr. Sorin Adam Matei

Irish student's Wikipedia hoax dupes newspapers - 0 views

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    An Irish student's fake quote on the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia has been used in newspaper obituaries around the world, the Irish Times reported. The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died in March. Shane Fitzgerald, 22, a final-year student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin, told the newspaper he placed the quote on the website as an experiment when doing research on globalisation.
Martin Burrett

Factitious - 32 views

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    "A fun quiz site where the user must discover whether a published news article is fake or real. A great site for older students when teaching about vitality of sources."
Tricia Hunt

The World's Best Print Ads, 2012-13 | Adweek - 124 views

  • Time, Wired and The New Yorker
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      Incredible! Such and example of trusted sources pushing certain products while at the same thing advertising themselves.
  • This campaign turned famous authors into headphones.
    • Tricia Hunt
       
      Genius!  I love the idea of audio books being Authors' voices speaking to us in an intimate way.
  • School portraits are turned on their heads to remind the viewer that every child gets education
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      Powerful message that appeals to statistics and helping people for a better cause
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  • elp us provide quality education to thousands of children in Chile because if we can change their education we can change their destiny."
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      Such a powerful message!
  • old the page for comedy.
  • ou know it's funny
  • When you see the logo
  • The drawings from the famous "Real Beauty Sketches" campaign, which won the Titanium Grand Prix this year. At left, a woman as described to a sketch artist by the woman. At right, the woman as described by a stranger.
    • Tricia Hunt
       
      WOW! Even more powerful!  This shows the impact media has made on us.  The left is the woman describing herself and the right is a STRANGER describing her!!! INSANE!
  • Fake ads cleverly pushed for better literacy rates in France
  • thumbs-up means nothing in this brutal campaign pleading for more tangible charity support than a like on Facebook.
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    "These iPad mini ads, released late last year, were placed on the back covers of several national magazines-including Time, Wired and The New Yorker."
Eric Langhorst

Strictly business? Personal tweets make profs more "credible" - 32 views

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    "The group that only saw social tweets ended up rating that professor higher in credibility than the group that saw only scholarly tweets. Researchers also said there was an especially significant difference in ratings when it came to whether a professor was "caring" or not. "These results support previous research that shows revealing personal information can increase a professor's perceived credibility," says the paper. "[I]t was interesting to note that the scholarly tweets did not significantly raise competence ratings in the groups that saw the scholarly posts. This could be an indication that caring, not competence, is the most important dimension when it comes to assessing perceived credibility on social networking sites." Not all students felt good about the social tweets, though. The researchers found that older students tended to rate the professors lower in credibility after having viewed their Twitter accounts. These students were also more likely to think it was a bad idea for profes"
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    Note the limitation of the study: (fake) professors were all female. Also, younger and older students responded differently.
Martin Burrett

All About Explorers - 18 views

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    "This is an interesting history site about explorers… except it isn't. If you look at the information it is wildly wrong and the site is designed to teach about fact checking and to show children that not all information on the Internet is trustworthy."
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