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In our attempts to discern truth, we are confounded by a 24/7 news cycle.
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The Verification Handbooks are a wonderful lens into this complicated process
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The Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics lists four guiding principles; the first of which is seek truth and report it.
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Over the course of the last decade we’ve seen professional news organizations and governments struggle with the politics and potential loadedness of words, notably terrorist and illegal immigrant.
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We need to teach the important lessons of everyday civics for new consumption and production landscapes. These lessons involve sustained critical thinking, a practice to engage in regularly as we read and view and inquire
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determine the trustworthiness of tweets, distinguish between news articles and opinion columns, identify ads on a news website, compare and evaluate posts from a newspaper’s comment section, identify the blue checkmark that distinguishes a verified Facebook account from a fake one, consider the relative strength of evidence presented by two posters in a Facebook exchange, decide whether or not to trust a photo on a photo-sharing website, determine whether a website can be trusted in an open web search, search to verify a claim about a controversial issue, assess the reliability of a partisan website, identify the strengths and weaknesses of an online video.
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Fake news is not new. But its potential for virality is and our awareness of it is newly awakened.
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And fake news is but one flavor of news that is less than accurate. It is but one bucket into which readers and viewers should sort types of truthiness.
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- Pure fake news sites use fabricated stories to lure traffic, encourage clicks (click bait), influence or profit using intentionally deceptive, but highly intriguing, often sensational information.
- Hoax sites also share false information with the intention to trick readers/viewers
- Satirical sites present news with a comical, often exaggerated spin
- Born digital images and edited images alter and often misrepresent visual reality
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post-truth
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relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.
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a quality characterizing a “truth” that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively “from the gut” or because it “feels right” without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.
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truthiness
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Most news is not simply fake or true. News from traditional sources can be suspect as well.
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A single story may tell a part of a larger story at the moment of its publishing.
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Several traditional news sources are to various degrees either right or left leaning. While some admit their bias, others do not
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Check About and About me pages
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Interrogate urls
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Suspect the sensational:
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Exaggerated and provocative headlines with excessive use of capital letters or emotional language are serious red flags.
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Go back to the source
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Go back to the story again (and again):
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Think outside the reliability box
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Triangulate
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What exactly are you reading?
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Check your own search attitude and biases
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Use a little energy
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Stop before you forward (or use)
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Be suspicious of pictures!
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cloaked sites
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confirmation bias
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content farm or content mill
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fact checking
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herding phenomenon
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native advertising:
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triangulation or cross verification
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Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world
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We were guaranteed a free press, We were not guaranteed a neutral or a true press
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It is up to the reader or viewer to negotiate truth
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The Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics lists four guiding principles; the first of which is seek truth and report it.
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Even news that is vetted by editors and publishers sometimes emerges from that process a bit processed, perhaps leaning in a particular direction.
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Over the course of the last decade we’ve seen professional news organizations and governments struggle with the politics and potential loadedness of words, notably terrorist and illegal immigrant.
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News Literacy defines news literacy as:
The ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports, whether they come via print, television or the Internet.
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We need to teach the important lessons of everyday civics for new consumption and production landscapes
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But in every case and at every level, we were taken aback by students’ lack of preparation .
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I see a serious need for librarians to build a few seaworthy arks from the news media flood to aid students in discerning credibility, reliability, and bias in context of their information needs and the context of the text itself. I can see us introducing the broad notion of triangulation to children for whom the word may be difficult to say.
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Google and Facebook both announced that they would try to eliminate fake news from appearing in their result lists and newsfeeds by blocking fake news sources from using their ad networks
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It is but one bucket into which readers and viewers should sort types of truthiness
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Pure fake news sites use fabricated stories to lure traffic, encourage clicks (click bait), influence or profit using intentionally deceptive, but highly intriguing, often sensational information
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Hoax sites also share false information with the intention to trick readers/viewers
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- Satirical sites present news with a comical, often exaggerated spin
- Born digital images and edited images alter and often misrepresent visual realit
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Their sources they choose to interview may not offer truth or a full picture
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Oxford Dictionaries recently announced post-truth as its 2016 international Word of the Year.
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relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.
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truthiness, now defined by Wikipedia as a quality characterizing a “truth” that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively “from the gut” or because it “feels right” without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts
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May 2016 Pew Research Center study found that a majority of U.S. adults – 62% – get news on social media, and 18% do so often. In terms of the total population, this translates to social media news reaching 67% of U.S. adults. The two-thirds of Facebook users who get news there, then, amount to 44% of the general population
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07 Jun 17Michele Day
" see a serious need for librarians to build a few seaworthy arks from the news media flood to aid students in discerning credibility, reliability, and bias in context of their information needs and the context of the text itself. I can see us introducing the broad notion of triangulation to children for whom the word may be difficult to say."
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Giving students perspective on media bias, encouraging students to gather their news from multiple sources, and reminding students to verify news before they share it.
Relevant to ISTE Standard 3: Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the nature of current knowledge to new technologies and situations. -
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A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world
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Beyond larger notions of information literacy, I see the case for a specific focus on news literacy.
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assessed the news literacy of students from middle school through college.
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Triangulate: Try to verify or corroborate the information in multiple sources, including traditional media and library databases. You can begin to rule out the hoaxes by checking out sites like the nonprofit, nonpartisan FactCheck.org, or popular sites like Snopes or Hoax-Slayer.
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Nurturing information literate, responsible, active citizens is what librarians do
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guarantees of truth from any source. We teach students to be discerning consumers of information. We teach them to deconstruct media messages and construct their own messages. We teach them to interrogate their sources. As the landscape continues to shift, librarians must update our own skill sets and toolkits to guide students in navigating a growingly nuanced universe of news. We must also examine and recognize our own biases so that we are open to contrary and conflicting ideas. This is our banner to wave, our curriculum to co-teach.
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17 Apr 17Christopher See
Joyce Valenza blog post with links to teaching resources and News Literacy Project's checkology tool.
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23 Mar 17melissa cardinali
Media literacy resources by Joyce Valenza
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21 Mar 17Gator Teacher
Joyce Valenza (via School Library Journal) November 2016 on educating students about Fake News. Links to recent Stanford Study, UNY-StonyBrook, many others.
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10 Mar 17Robert Smith
"Information Literacy Lessons Crucial in a Post Truth World"
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It is up to the reader or viewer to negotiate truth.
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The ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports, whether they come via print, television or the Internet.
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triangulation to children for whom the word may be difficult to say.
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28 Feb 17k schnapp
We were guaranteed a free press, We were not guaranteed a neutral or a true press. We can celebrate the journalistic freedom to publish without interference from the state. We can also celebrate our freedom to share multiple stories through multiple lenses. But it has always been up to the reader or viewer to make the reliability and credibility decisions. It is up to the reader or viewer to negotiate truth.
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"I see a serious need for librarians to build a few seaworthy arks from the news media flood to aid students in discerning credibility, reliability, and bias in context of their information needs and the context of the text itself. I can see us introducing the broad notion of triangulation to children for whom the word may be difficult to say."
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19 Jan 17Megan Graff
"Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world"
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18 Jan 17MNR EdTech Consulting
GREAT resources here for helping students understand information and its truthfulness.
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Se pidió a los estudiantes para realizar tareas tales como: determinar la fiabilidad de los tweets, distinguir entre artículos y columnas de opinión, a identificar los anuncios en un sitio web de noticias, comparar y evaluar los mensajes de sección de comentarios de un periódico, identificar la marca de verificación azul que distingue a una cuenta de Facebook verificado de uno falso, considere la fuerza relativa de las pruebas presentadas por los dos carteles en una bolsa de Facebook, decidir si confiar o no en una foto en un sitio web para compartir fotos, determinar si un sitio web se puede confiar en una búsqueda en la web abierta, la búsqueda de verificar una afirmación sobre un tema controvertido, evaluar la fiabilidad de un sitio web partidario, identificar las fortalezas y debilidades de un video en Internet. (Pág. 6) (Nota: La mayor parte de estas tareas auténticamente se puede enseñar en nuestras bibliotecas durante el curso natural de cualquier proyecto de investigación.)
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22 Dec 16Steve Ransom
"By high school, we would hope that students reading about gun laws would notice that a chart came from a gun owners’ political action committee. And, in 2016, we would hope college students, who spend hours each day online, would look beyond a .org URL and ask who’s behind a site that presents only one side of a contentious issue. But in every case and at every level, we were taken aback by students’ lack of preparation . . ."
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21 Dec 16Marita Thomson
Our kids need new types of filters. Beyond larger notions of information literacy, I see the case for a specific focus on news literacy. Not as a lesson of good vs. bad. Not as an attempt to pitch traditional media against social media or peer review against popular publication. Not through the examination of hoaky hoax sites. And certainly not as a one-of, checklist type of lesson for a 9th grade social studies teacher in September.
We need to teach the important lessons of everyday civics for new consumption and production landscapes. These lessons involve sustained critical thinking, a practice to engage in regularly as we read and view and inquire with learners of all ages acros -
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09 Dec 16Patrick Larkin
Great resource from Joyce Valenza
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Della Gordon
Article from School Library Journal:
We were guaranteed a free press, We were not guaranteed a neutral or a true press. We can celebrate the journalistic freedom to publish without interference from the state. We can also celebrate our freedom to share multiple stories through multiple lenses.
But it has always been up to the reader or viewer to make the reliability and credibility decisions. It is up to the reader or viewer to negotiate truth.
News literacy is complicated. In our attempts to discern truth, we are confounded by a 24/7 news cycle. News hits us across media platforms and devices, in a landscape populated by all degrees of professional journalists and citizen journalists and satirists and hoaxers and folks paid or personally moved to write intentionally fake news. All of this is compounded by the glories and the drawbacks of user-generated content, citizen journalism, and a world of new news choices. -
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An article about the value of news literacy with resources at the end for teaching news literacy.
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