a few guidelines to help understand how the study’s findings can be of practical use to students, and teachers who are looking to improve digital literacy in their classrooms
How to help students spot misinformation | The Educator Asia - 0 views
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The internet has democratised access to information but in so doing has opened the floodgates to misinformation, fake news, and rank propaganda masquerading as dispassionate analysis.
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read laterally, leaving a site after a quick scan and opening up new browser tabs in order to judge the credibility of the original site
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the way we’re taught from a young age to evaluate and think critically about information is fundamentally flawed and out of step with the chaos of the current internet.
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It’s often counterproductive to engage directly with content from an unknown source, and people can be led astray by false information
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the best way to learn about a source of information is to leave it and look elsewhere, a concept called lateral reading.
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Parenting for a Digital Future - Media literacy - everyone's favourite solution to t... - 0 views
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Media Literacy … provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet.
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The more that the media mediate everything in society – work, education, information, civic participation, social relationships and more – the more vital it is that people are informed about and critically able to judge what’s useful or misleading, how they are regulated, when media can be trusted, and what commercial or political interests are at stake. In short, media literacy is needed not only to engage with the media but to engage with society through the media.
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any media literacy strategy requires sustained attention, resources and commitment
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