{"id":5211,"date":"2019-05-09T22:31:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/?p=5211"},"modified":"2019-05-09T22:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:40:33","slug":"student-prep-for-dealing-with-misinformation-is-no-longer-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2019\/05\/09\/student-prep-for-dealing-with-misinformation-is-no-longer-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Student prep for dealing with misinformation is no longer effective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> concludes that the approach taken to prepare students to identify misinformation online is no longer effective. The authors suggest that popular strategies typically involve providing students a list of things that can look for<\/a> within the content they are reading and they suggest that these red flags are too easy to eliminate should a content creator be serious about misinformation. They conclude that it is necessary to go beyond the content under consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The necessary approach is to think like a “fact checker”. Open a couple of extra tabs and read laterally<\/strong>. Test facts offered by searching for other sources. Fact checking has become a part of the political scene as news sources identify a claim and then offer evidence from other sources that either verify or refute the claim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What should be fact checked? I would think any claim that is crucial to the position being taken. I can imagine a situation in which a white board is used to display a web page. Students might then read and highlight core claims<\/a> made in the article that is displayed. Students might then use their own devices to fact check these claims, save the sources, and paraphrase the critical material from these sources. <\/p>\n

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