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Sarah Renn F YE Program Coordinator First Year Programs amp Learning Communities Session Objectives Attendees will reflect on their own experience with and preferences for news sources ID: 678362

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Critical Thinking, the News, and Social Media

Sarah Renn FYE Program Coordinator First Year Programs & Learning CommunitiesSlide2

Session Objectives

Attendees will reflect on their own experience with and preferences for news sources.Attendees will identify and evaluate strategies for differentiating real and fake news.Attendees will identify resources and strategies for increasing the ability of FYE students to critically think about news and social media.Slide3

Initiation: Where do you get your news?

What are the benefits and limitations of this type of news?Slide4

Different Types of “News”

Fake NewsKnowingly publishes untrue information while claiming it to be true, usually to drive traffic to a website or to propagate disinformation.Misleading News

Contains some truths that are taken out of context.

Satirical News

Covers current events, but makes fun of the tone and content of traditional news. Satirical news isn’t meant to mislead.Slide5

Quick Write

What are potential consequences when fake news goes viral? Do you think you could spot fake news or would you be fooled? How aware are you of your biases, which may predispose you to accept certain information as fact without verifying it?Slide6

Video: How False News Can Spread

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-false-news-can-spread-noah-tavlin#digdeeper

Slide7

Activity: Separating good news from fake or misleading news

Is the story reliable? Is it “good information”?Slide8

Example #1

http://abcnews.com.co/obama-signs-executive-order-banning-national-anthem/Slide9

Comments

This isn’t the real ABC News. “com.co” means the site is registered in Columbia and the address given is for the Westboro Baptist Church.Slide10

Who is the Author? -

http://abcnews.com.co/author/abcnews/Slide11

Example #2 -

https://web.archive.org/web/20161003181610/http://christiantimesnewspaper.com/breaking-tens-of-thousands-of-fraudulent-clinton-votes-found-in-ohio-warehouse/ Slide12

Google the photo to cross-check itSlide13

Google resultsSlide14

Discussion

How difficult was it to spot questionable information? Why should our FYE students care enough to do the research to determine fake vs. real stories?Slide15

Recent Research

Stanford's Graduate School of Education, 18-month study, how well middle school, high school, and university students judge validity of internet informationUniversity students had to:Evaluate an article

Research a claim about a controversial topic

Determine website reliability

Identify strengths/weaknesses of a social media video

Identify the veracity of information tweeted on social media

Stanford History Education Group. (2016, November 22). Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning. Retrieved February 20, 2017, from https://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/V3LessonPlans/Executive%20Summary%2011.21.16.pdfSlide16

Their Findings for University

Students“Bleak”Example: determine how reliable MinimumWage.com is for providing

information on minimum wage policy

and employment rates. 93% of college students didn’t realize

that the organization was affiliated with a DC lobbying firm.Slide17
Slide18

Newseum’s 6 Consumer Questions

Who made this?How was this made?Why was this made?When was this made?

What is this missing?

Where do I go from here?

Schulten, K. (2015, October 02). Skills and Strategies | Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources. Retrieved December 21, 2016, from http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/skills-and-strategies-fake-news-vs-real-news-determining-the-reliability-of-sources/?_r=0Slide19

Activity – How accurate are

your social media feeds?Using the Newseum’s framework, review some of the information that appears on your social media feeds. How reliable is the information? How complete is the information?Slide20

Activity Debrief

How did your social media news feed do in terms of reliability?Does a pattern emerge of the types of information sources that generally seem trustworthy and those that generally do not?What types of visual or written clues help you determine if a source of information is trustworthy or not?Have you retweeted/forwarded/reposted anything that may be fake or misleading?Slide21

For Fun – NYT’s weekly News Quiz

Three of the education-related headlines below appeared in The Times August 2015. One is from the satirical paper The Onion. Which is the fake news story?(a) 20% of New York State Students Opted Out of Standardized Tests This Year(b) Board Says Players at Northwestern Can’t Unionize

(c) Online University Allows Students to Amass Crippling Debt at Own Pace

(d) Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree, Study Says

Schulten, K. (2015, October 02). Skills and Strategies | Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources. Retrieved December 21, 2016, from

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/skills-and-strategies-fake-news-vs-real-news-determining-the-reliability-of-sources/?_r=0

Slide22

Quick Write closure

Review your original quick write. Did you detect fake and misleading information as well as you thought you would? How critically do you look at news that confirms your beliefs? What steps will you take in the future to test the reliability and veracity of your news sources?Slide23

Resources

Anti-Defamation League lesson plans. from http://www.adl.org/education-outreach/lesson-plans/c/fake-news-and-what-we-can-do-about-it.html#.WKssyvkrJaQDavis, W. (n.d.). Fake Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts. Retrieved December 06, 2016, from http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/05/503581220/fake-or-real-how-to-self-check-the-news-and-get-the-factsNewseum’s Consumer Questions. https://newseumed.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Handout-BIN-Consumers-Questions.pdf

Stanford History Education Group study. Executive Summary.

https://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/V3LessonPlans/Executive%20Summary%2011.21.16.pdf

TEDEd Video: How false news can spread.

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-false-news-can-spread-noah-tavlin#digdeeper

TEDEd Video: How to choose your news.

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-choose-your-news-damon-brown

Zimdars, M. (2017). False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources. https://docs.google.com/document/d/10eA5-mCZLSS4MQY5QGb5ewC3VAL6pLkT53V_81ZyitM/editSlide24

Works Cited

Anti-Defamation League. (n.d.). Fake News and What We Can Do about It. Retrieved February 20, 2017, from http://www.adl.org/education-outreach/lesson-plans/c/fake-news-and-what-we-can-do-about-it.html#.WKssyvkrJaQAbout Us - Newslo - politicot.com. (n.d.). Retrieved February 20, 2017, from hpoliticot.com/about-us/ Breaking: Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Clinton Votes Found in Ohio Warehouse. Retrieved on February 20, 2017 from: https://web.archive.org/web/20161003181610/http://christiantimesnewspaper.com/breaking-tens-of-thousands-of-fraudulent-clinton-votes-found-in-ohio-warehouse/

Center for American Progress. (2015, November 17). RELEASE: Gun Owners Overwhelmingly Support Background Checks, See NRA as Out of Touch, New Poll Finds. Retrieved February 20, 2017, from https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2015/11/17/125618/release-gun-owners-overwhelmingly-support-background-checks-see-nra-as-out-of-touch-new-poll-finds/

Center for News Literacy. (n.d.). Introducing IMVAIN. Retrieved February 20, 2017, from

http://drc.centerfornewsliteracy.org/content/introducing-imvain

Davis, W. (n.d.). Fake Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts. Retrieved December 06, 2016, from http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/05/503581220/fake-or-real-how-to-self-check-the-news-and-get-the-facts

Rustling, J. (2016, November 11). Obama Signs Executive Order Banning The National Anthem From Sporting Events Nationwide. Retrieved February 20, 2017, from

http://abcnews.com.co/obama-signs-executive-order-banning-national-anthem/

Rustling, J. (2016, December 12). Dr. Jimmy Rustling. Retrieved February 21, 2017, from http://abcnews.com.co/author/abcnews/

Schulten, K. (2015, October 02). Skills and Strategies | Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources. Retrieved December 21, 2016, from

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/skills-and-strategies-fake-news-vs-real-news-determining-the-reliability-of-sources/?_r=0

Silverman, C. (2016, December 30). Here Are 50 Of The Biggest Fake News Hits On Facebook From 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2017, from

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/top-fake-news-of-2016?utm_term=.pomReMGd1n#.enlkZAWQ85

Stanford History Education Group. (2016, November 22). Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning. Retrieved February 20, 2017, from

https://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/V3LessonPlans/Executive%20Summary%2011.21.16.pdf

Tavlin, N. (n.d.). How false news can spread - Noah Tavlin. Retrieved February 20, 2017, from

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-false-news-can-spread-noah-tavlin#digdeeper

Wikipedia. (2017, February 12). ABCnews.com.co. Retrieved February 20, 2017, from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCnews.com.co

Zimdars, M. (2017). False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources. Retrieved February 20, 2017 from:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10eA5-mCZLSS4MQY5QGb5ewC3VAL6pLkT53V_81ZyitM/edit