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Nicole HennigCollege students & misinformation: teaching fact-checking 101 https://inquirygroup.substack.com/p/factchecking101 #education #LateralReading
Scale.
- Scale destroys trust
- Scale creates targets
- You cannot automate counter disinformation work
- Work together, support each other and
- Add your voice to the chorus - teach lateral reading
#LIANZA2025 #scale #misinfo #disinfo #lateralreading
Nicole HennigCollege students & misinformation: teaching fact-checking 101 https://inquirygroup.substack.com/p/factchecking101 #education #LateralReading
TinDrum'We narrowed the focus of our program to skills essential to being an informed citizen, such as “lateral reading” − that is, using the full context of the internet to judge the quality of a claim, identify the people or organizations behind it and assess their credibility. Rather than fixate solely on the message, we taught students to vet the messenger'
#mediaLiteracy #internet #misinformation #education #lateralReading
Kate NyhanInteresting paper
Neumann, I., Bottaro, F., Izcovich, A., Bengolea, A., Agnoletti, C., Ragusa, M. A., Tortosa, F., Karzulovic, L., Letelier, L. M., Catalano, H., & Schünemann, H. (2025). Encouraging the use of the best available evidence in journal clubs for practising clinicians. BMJ evidence-based medicine, bmjebm-2024-113448. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113448
Anyone have recommendations about bringing #LateralReading practices à la Mike Caulfield's SIFT approach to journal clubs?
Neumann, I., Bottaro, F., Izcovich, A., Bengolea, A., Agnoletti, C., Ragusa, M. A., Tortosa, F., Karzulovic, L., Letelier, L. M., Catalano, H., & Schünemann, H. (2025). Encouraging the use of the best available evidence in journal clubs for practising clinicians. BMJ evidence-based medicine, bmjebm-2024-113448. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113448
Anyone have recommendations about bringing #LateralReading practices à la Mike Caulfield's SIFT approach to journal clubs?
Wesley Fryer
gtbarryTeenagers Tell Us About Their Relationship With News
how and why media — online, in print, and on TV — treats news as a product, and how that shapes the way they think and feel. Some said that made them not want to be informed, but many others shared their strategies for navigating the noise
#teenagers #news #journalism #socialmedia #media #MediaLiteracy #LateralReading #technology #tech
Beware of Hurricane Helene Fundraising Scams
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2024/09/30/beware-of-hurricane-helene-fundraising-scams/
#GoFundMe #fraud #FactCheck #Helene #hurricane #MediaLit #edtech #DigCit #edtechSR #SIFT #LateralReading
bs2> .. cognitive strategies for critical ignoring: #SelfNudging.. ignores temptations by removing them from one’s.. environments; #LateralReading.. vets information by leaving the source and verifying its credibility elsewhere online.. the #DoNotFeedTheTrolls heuristic, which advises one to not reward malicious actors with attention. We argue that these strategies implementing #CriticalIgnoring should be part of.. #DigitalInformationLiteracy.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214221121570
/HT @Chloeg
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214221121570
/HT @Chloeg
Rebecca Hedreen#LibraryInstruction folks: I'm going to teach #LateralReading explicitly for the first time in a #library session for first-years/freshman. Anyone have any suggestions for exercises that have worked well for you? The course itself is propaganda themed, but this session won't have a specific assignment or topic.