📰I challenge you to stop the spread of misinformation. 📰
Misinformation and disinformation are rampant in our lives. Now that people have the news literally at their fingertips on smart devices, there is a wealth of knowledge, but not all of it is true or unbias. There are even those out there purposefully feeding us false information to skew elections, heighten our emotions, and falsely create generalizations about groups of people.
Watch this video to see how AI can be used to create fake information. You will notice the former President Obama says some choice words that he would normally not say. This shows how real and life-like some of the information out there can be.
Colorful Ads, short videos, and emotion catching memes bombard social media, cable, tv, and radio. Feeding us sometimes more than we can handle. How can we prepare ourselves and our students to navigate all of the information out there.
One of my favorite resources is the News Literacy Projects at www.newslit.org. They are a non-profit organization created to help teach skills to separate truth from false or misinformation. They focus on teaching specific skills and giving tools for each type of misinformation. Checkology, their classroom program, gives specifics on how to spot fake news. Below is just one of the many great handouts to teach the different types of misinformation.
Most of the resources are free! Checkology is free to educators right now due to Covid-19 and remote learning. As a teacher, there is even a lot to educate yourself on misinformation.
Do you not know where you stand on the misinformation front? Take this fun quiz! These are some common false pop culture sayings that are shared. There were some questions on there that were truly tricky! How many can you get correct?
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