Fake News! by Cory Allen https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3 After reading the article, please identify your biggest takeaways. en-us 2019-03-01 20:13:02 UTC 2019-03-12 14:36:28 UTC hello@padlet.com After reading the article, please identify your biggest takeaways. callen54 https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/337025191 2019-03-01 20:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/337025191 Falbo https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340433279 I agree with: The authors worry that democracy is threatened by the ease at which disinformation about civic issues is allowed to spread and flourish.]]> 2019-03-12 14:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340433279 Maher rmaher4 https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340433879 "This finding indicates that students may focus more on the content of social media posts than on their sources," the authors wrote. "Despite their fluency with social media, many students are unaware of basic conventions for indicating verified digital information."

This is a scary thought.]]> 2019-03-12 14:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340433879 Guzzetta https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340434353 The idea of digital literacy in 2019 means that we need to start teaching this at home at a young age.  Digital literacy should be taught from the elementary years, through middle school and into high school.  Hopefully that could balance content with media sources.]]> 2019-03-12 14:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340434353 Not to be pessimistic like Guzzetta, but because news and social media is so fluid and every-changing, it is extremely difficult to be ahead of the curve when it comes to helping our students discern what is credible and what is #FakeNewz. https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340434432 2019-03-12 14:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340434432 McMillan https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340434643 Even though students are fluent using social media, they lack the skills to judge and assess the content they are reading. They are easily duped and we need more ways to teach students how to evaluate this information.

]]> 2019-03-12 14:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340434643 Julie Driscoll Brennan https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340434830 My biggest takeaway is that we are far too late when students are seniors. We teach methods for checking source credibility. This needs to be done in 6th grade. I assume students have these skills, but based on the article, they don't.]]> 2019-03-12 14:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340434830 Curley Students focus more on content than on their sources scurley2 https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340434843 2019-03-12 14:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340434843 Welch https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340435038 While students are unable to identify sponsored content, I question adult's ability to question the content as well. We may need to start with training for adults/teachers so that we can roll out that information to our students. I think that I may be "tricked" as well because of my lack of training or awareness.]]> 2019-03-12 14:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340435038 Trujillo We are not as smart as we think! Even university students - who should be questioning materials that they are reading for bias, and accuracy are easily duped. What is the take away? How do we work with students to make sure they are able to use real news? https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340435629 2019-03-12 14:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340435629 Kemp https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340435805 This goes along with what Cory said. "old school" needs to work with "new school"]]> 2019-03-12 14:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340435805 As more information becomes available it is increasingly harder for students to distinguish between credible and "fake". Teaching how make this distinction is extremely important, but must be be done at a younger age. https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340435874 2019-03-12 14:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340435874 Bridget https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340435943 Students struggle to reason about information.  They can't distinguish between ads and news.  Students focus on content, not necessarily credibility of the source.

]]> 2019-03-12 14:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340435943 Daly https://padlet.com/callen54/ds52donhbiz3/wish/340436018 "Making sense of search results...."  We are still trying to teach seniors this skill.  

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