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Steve Ransom

MediaShift . Fact-Checking Social Media: The Case of the Pope and the Dictator | PBS - 1 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 01 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 01 Apr 13
     
    Excellent workflow described here in getting to the truth online.
Steve Ransom

#BaldForBieber Hoax Teaches Kids to Fact Check Before Shaving Their Heads - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 27 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 27 Oct 12
     
    Poetic justice for those who fail to fact check.
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Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search | Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 09 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Who’s to blame? Not the students. If they’re naive at Googling, it’s because the ability to judge information is almost never taught in school.
  • And by the time kids get to college, professors assume they already have this skill.
  • Students quickly gain the ability to detect if a top-ranked page about Martin Luther King Jr. was actually posted by white supremacists.
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  • “crap detection 101,” as digital guru Howard Rheingold dubs it, isn’t easy. One prerequisite is that you already know a lot about the world.
  • group of college students
  • Pan grimly concluded that students aren’t assessing information sources on their own merit—they’re putting too much trust in the machine.
  • High school and college students may be “digital natives,” but they’re wretched at searching.
  • In 1955, we wondered why Johnny can’t read. Today the question is, why can’t Johnny search?
  • Steve Ransom on 09 Nov 11
     
    "Google makes broad-based knowledge more important, not less. A good education is the true key to effective search. But until our kids have that, let's make sure they don't always take PageRank at its word."
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