#MediaLiteracy
The Election Integrity Partnership was founded in 2020 as a non-partisan coalition to empower the research community, election officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, social media platforms, and others to defend our elections against those who seek to undermine them by exploiting weaknesses in the online information environment.
https://www.eipartnership.net/
The machine runs amok: Twisted facts, fake news and social media spoofs can turn society upside down. One UW team is working to help us through the infodemic.
https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/an-infodemic-runs-amok-one-uw-team-works-to-stop-it-from-spreading/
#book2read: The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics by Daniel M. Russell @dmrussell
https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Search-Google-Insiders-Beyond-ebook/dp/B08BSZZ2Q9/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0
Finland’s ‘visionary’ fight against disinformation teaches citizens to question what they see online
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/05/16/news/finland-visionary-fight-disinformation-teaches-citizens-question-online
Confronting Health Misinformation (2021 report from US Surgeon General)
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-misinformation-advisory.pdf
Excited to learn this! Control-F project has Google Forms to use for pre-and post- tests! Get data for your own students to show your school administrators!
(Must register for free to view / use)
https://ctrl-f.ca/en/resources/
Great “Example Bank” of media literacy discussion prompts from the Control-F project:
https://ctrl-f.ca/en/examples/
Control-F helps people make sense of digital evidence in order to find the truth. (Essentially the 4 steps of SIFT, but with different words)
https://www.controlf.net/
Upcoming Mike Caulfield @holden book in November 2023: “Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, & Make Better Decisions About What to Believe Online”
https://www.amazon.com/Verified-Straight-Better-Decisions-Believe/dp/0226822060
Upcoming Mike Caulfield @holden book in November 2023: “Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, & Make Better Decisions About What to Believe Online”
https://www.amazon.com/Verified-Straight-Better-Decisions-Believe/dp/0226822060
Next media literacy example: Google “four children for sale photo”
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/4-children-sale-1948/
Next one: Google “jumping off building science fair”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/middle-school-break-arms-jumping-off-water-tower-science-project/
Conclusions: “What am I looking at here?”
Bigger issue than just teaching students how to fact checking using Google’s “three dots” or “About this source” information: Helping them CARE about checking for facts / caring about TRUTH (my paraphrase: Not being nihilists!)
via Amy
Media Literacy Activity: Google “accept dangerous road”
Multiple copies of actual 1988 news clip like:
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23156738.watch-cars-crash-hilarious-north-east-a19-archive-footage/
via Liz Crouse @lizjcrouse using #SIFT resources from Mike Caufield @holden
Snopes article on the Buzz Aldrin Conan O'Brien interview video:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/buzz-aldrin-moon-landing-faked/
via Liz Crouse @lizjcrouse using #SIFT resources from Mike Caufield @holden
Media literacy lesson example: Buzz Aldrin and the “animation”
https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/1637818986686472194
(My thought: 1 big problem with sharing the actual URL to an example like this is amplifying the original poster, who in this case appears to be a very polarizing
via Liz Crouse @lizjcrouse using #SIFT resources from Mike Caufield @holden
What we SHOULD do: (when encountering media that inspires a strong feeling)
1- Ask What am I looking at here? (Get context of source and claim)
2- Now that you know the context: Is it still compelling? (Still spark interest / emotion / thoughts?)
Sam Weinberg: “critical ignoring”
via Liz Crouse @lizjcrouse using #SIFT resources from Mike Caufield @holden
What we SHOULD do: (when encountering media that inspires a strong feeling)
1- Ask What am I looking at here? (Get context of source and claim)
2- Now that you know the context: Is it still compelling? (Still spark interest / emotion / thoughts?)
Sam Weinberg: “critical ignoring”
3- Finally: Do I believe this? How do I feel about this?
via Liz Crouse @lizjcrouse using #SIFT resources from Mike Caufield @holden
Example from October 2022: Video of students throwing soup on a Van Gough painting
“Climate Change Protest”
https://twitter.com/damiengayle/status/1580864210741133312?lang=en
Context comes later… (there was glass over the museum painting)
via Liz Crouse @lizjcrouse using #SIFT resources from Mike Caufield @holden
Courses from “The Coding School” https://the-cs.org/
Fantastic professional development resources for teachers & courses for high school students!
via Karen Ash #MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
Fantastic resource from today’s workshop: “Digital Information Literacy Guide. A digital information literacy guide for citizens in the digital age”
https://faktabaari.fi/dil/digital-information-literacy-guide/
Also great accompanying videos: https://faktabaari.fi/dil/
New website for royalty-free images for me: Vacteezy https://www.vecteezy.com/
via Jevin West @jevinwest
Big Concerns about Generative AI via Jevin West @jevinwest
- BS at scale
- Democratic discourse
- Content credit
- Job elimination
- Pseudo-science proliferation
- AI overconfidence
- Reverse engineering
- Generative cost
- Garbage in, garbage out
Also: We need more databases of actual election-related advertisements used on Facebook and other social media platforms to use in comparative lessons / case studies. Jevin West @jevinwest referenced NYU Ad Observatory https://adobservatory.org/ which resulted in litigation from Facebook.
The Media Education Lab @MediaEdLab (Renee Hobbs @reneehobbs) has a good database of propaganda examples: https://propaganda.mediaeducationlab.com/browse
My thought: HYPERLINKED WRITING! We need students to regularly engage in LATERAL READING & then include their hyperlinks to other sources about that source / additional sources.
Considering the challenges presented by AI / ChatGPT…
LATERAL READING is a key skill to encourage and teach, we know from research this WORKS
Also “pre-bunking” (saying “these are the kinds of memes / tropes you are likely to see…”)
Ideas via Jevin West @jevinwest
Using the term “curiosity” as a term which unites us / researchers, rather than polarizes us like terms like “fake news” or even “disinformation”
Sam Wineburg, others starting group out of Stanford History Group devoted as a nonprofit to evaluating different curricula when it comes to media literacy
We have found using symbols from “traffic lights” in Finnish media literacy curriculum has been helpful in conversations with students about misinformation (mistake) / disinformation (lie) / malformation (gossip).
Noted “gossip” may not be the best translation / alternate synonym for “malformation”
via Mikko Salo @Faktabaari @NORDIShub @EDMO_EUI @FactBar #MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
Interesting ChatGPT 4.0 generated comparisons between educational systems in Finland and Washington State, USA
via Mikko Salo @Faktabaari @NORDIShub @EDMO_EUI @FactBar #MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
SLOWING DOWN is so key when reading the web / consuming digital content now… TikTok is popular (especially) among youth in Finland as it is the USA. It’s a big issue of major concern in Finland now too… the VERSION of TIkTok seen by users in Finland & the USA is different than in China, very much a “black box” algorithmically to try to understand
via Mikko Salo @Faktabaari @NORDIShub @EDMO_EUI @FactBar #MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
Reading is KEY for the overall development of critical thinking & media literacy skills. There are no ‘silver bullets’ but strengthening educational institutions and capacity to develop reading skills among youth / citizens is KEY / hugely important.
via Mikko Salo @Faktabaari @NORDIShub @EDMO_EUI @FactBar #MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
“Our strongest line of defence is between our ears” - Finland President Sauli Niinistö addressing new military cadets in 2015
via Mikko Salo @Faktabaari @NORDIShub @EDMO_EUI @FactBar #MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
The Finnish Science Barometer is intended to gauge public opinion and attitudes towards science. Commissioned by the Finnish Society.
https://www.tieteentiedotus.fi/files/tiedebarometri_2022_en.pdf
via Mikko Salo @Faktabaari @NORDIShub @EDMO_EUI @FactBar #MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
The information diet of our students is often different from that of the adults (big gaps between young and old, that is cultural but seems to be a common issue across national boundaries”
Via Mikko Salo @Faktabaari @NORDIShub @EDMO_EUI @FactBar #MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
We are working to “pre-bunk” election disinformation.
Started as a fact-checking service, now sharing methods on how to do fact-checking yourself
“We have a BIG NEIGHBOR and they send cyberattacks which affect our older citizens as well as young people”
Via Mikko Salo @Faktabaari @NORDIShub @EDMO_EUI @FactBar #MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
Now hearing from Mikko Salo @Faktabaari @NORDIShub @EDMO_EUI @FactBar: Founder of Faktabaari (FactBar) | Executive Member of EDMO NORDIS Hub | Former Member of the European Commission
https://faktabaari.fi/edu/
“Which Face Is Real?
https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/
“Our aim is to make you aware of the ease with which digital identities can be faked, and to help you spot these fakes at a single glance.”
#MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
Thread 🧵 of my notes from “Teaching for Resilience: FinnishED Workshop” at the University of Washington with #TIPteachers
https://www.cip.uw.edu/events/finnishedworkshop/
Our focus is on media literacy specifically for citizenship & democratic governance. #MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP
Coldicutt: "Understanding technologies requires also understanding power; it needs #medialiteracy as well as technical literacy; incisive questioning as well as shock and awe.
If there is an existential threat posed by Open #AI and other technology companies, it is the threat of a few individuals shaping markets and societies for their own benefit. Elite corporate capture is the real existential risk, but it looks much less exciting in a headline."
#FluidLiteracies
https://rachelcoldicutt.medium.com/on-understanding-power-and-technology-1345dc57a1a
new post: Starting an Audio Podcast (June 2023)
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2023/06/02/starting-an-audio-podcast-june-2023/
#Podcasting #PodcastCreation #AudioPodcast #PodcastTips #PodcastPractice #PodcastSharing #PodcastAmplification #PodcastGeek #PodcastLove #SpotifyForPodcasters #AnchorPodcasts #EdTech #PodcastDistribution #PodcastingJourney #PodcastProduction #PodcastIdeas #MediaLiteracy #ContentCreation #Podcasting2023 #PodcastCommunity #PodcastListeners #StartingAPodcast #PodcastGuide #PodcastResources #PodcastersOfInstagram
The Curious Case of Julian Martir #MediaLiteracy #Journalism #Philippines
This week, 🇵🇭 media published a story about a student from a low-income family who was accepted into 30 unis in the US and UK with "$1.9M in scholarships," a stunning headline in a country where even 1 scholarship is big news.
Confusion began when students from his hometown took to social media alleging a history of faked credentials. This was only fueled by his alma mater's "no comment" on the issue. However...
Attention teachers and librarians: On June 9-10, our team at the @uwcip is hosting "Teaching for Resilience: FinnishED Workshop" at UW Seattle, where we'll assemble a group of media literacy experts from Finland and the U.S.
We'll explore the landscape of Finnish education, how they teach information and media literacy skills, and the various practices and resources we can adapt and implement into the U.S. context!
Register by May 19:
https://www.cip.uw.edu/events/finnishedworkshop/
Some thoughts of mine on #disinformation and #medialiteracy published in the May issue of Public Diplomacy Today. The full text isn't online yet but there's a sneak peak on my Substack: https://www.steveherman.press/p/voas-truth-telling-continues-to-counter?sd=pf
👉 One of the things we often point to in our work is the importance of "lateral reading."
@Poynter cites a factchecking guide from @uwcip research scientist @mikecaulfield, who urges people to “[g]et off the page and see what other authoritative sources have said about the site” while piecing together “different bits of information from across the web to get a better picture of the site.”
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/what-are-deepfakes-how-to-identify-them/
I started a new #wakelet collection for "Media Literacy Skills Everyone Should Have" https://wakelet.com/wake/4UYqBth3KcDEVnqPze6F0
(just getting started with 3 basics...)
#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #edtech #literacy #googleEDU #YouTube #podcasts #create2learn
At the @uwcip, we’re pleased to be here on Mastodon and plan to share and boost news and insights from our team at UW Seattle plus researchers and communities we collaborate with across Washington state, the United States, and beyond.
Interested in our work and learning more?
🟣 Website: https://www.cip.uw.edu/
🟣 Newsletter and news archive: https://www.cip.uw.edu/news/cip-news-insights-newsletter/
#UWCIP #Seattle #UniversityOfWashington #Misinformation #InformationLiteracy #MediaLiteracy
I study the effectiveness of #medialiteracy #games. Today, I'll be livestreaming some of my process by breaking down (through play) two boardgames.
You can check it out here at 10 am est or watch the recording: https://m.twitch.tv/pedanticpuffin
Last night I wrote a new blog post, "LISTEN Carefully to his Words," after watching the (recorded) 50 minute closing speech at Friday's NRA meeting in Indianapolis. You should read and share it:
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2023/04/14/listen-carefully-to-his-words/
I also cross-posted this to Medium & my Substack newsletter on media literacy:
https://medium.com/@wfryer/listen-carefully-to-his-words-c1df6922d5d
#democracy #elections #politics #polarization #history #MediaLiteracy #MediaLit #citizenship
2007 research publication by Google: “Attention is All You Need”
https://research.google/pubs/pub46201/
Via #AmyWebb
#edtech #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #SXSW23 #future #edtech #AI #ChatGPT
new post: Write Less (Smart Brevity)
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2023/03/24/write-less-smart-brevity/
#blogging #writing #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #attention #AttentionEconomy #marketing #advertising #wisdom
“Conspiracy theories are good for business in the attention economy” by Kelly Weill #KellyWeill
#ConCW #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #ConspiracyTheory #digiURI
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0B7QMTDRN?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow
Inside the Flat Earth Conference, Where the World’s Oldest Conspiracy Theory Is Hot Again (from 2017) by #KellyWeill in #DailyBeast https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-flat-earth-conference-where-the-worlds-oldest-conspiracy-theory-is-hot-again or https://archive.ph/zKvqY cc #ConCW #conspiracy #ConspiracyTheory #FlatEarth #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy
Who is responsible?
❓ What new lessons must students learn given use of AI-generated misinformation?
⭐ In teams of 3-4, write a government policy about how AI-generated content should be used. Be sure to consider: creators of the AI, companies selling AI services, and those who create and distribute AI-generated content to deceive or harm others.
#AI #Misinformation #Disinformation #MediaLiteracy #NewsLiteracy #FactChecking
@edutooters
> "This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it because they will not practise their memory … You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding. And you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction."
#medialiteracy
"An enduring democracy will encourage rather than discourage media criticism. Attacks by politicians and exposure of unethical acts clearly lower public trust in journalism. But measured skepticism can be healthy and media criticism comprises an essential component of media literacy – and a vibrant democracy."
https://theconversation.com/dont-trust-the-news-media-thats-good-200152
My mother is interested in joining #Mastodon cuz her Twitter #Teacher crew keeps shrinking. She’s an #Educator searching for a good instance with other #EdTech #EdChat #MediaLiteracy #DigitalLiteracy #Education #Teaching #EduTooter #K12 geeks. Where you all at? scholar.social appears full, which is what I was going to suggest. Thanks!
Long, but fascinating and very relevant piece on #MediaLiteracy.
argues poignantly that what young people really need is cognitive strengthening exercises to help students recognize their own fault lines regarding beliefs and how their own minds work.
https://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2
I personally would add teaching E-prime and general semantics.
Hey everyone, I have an exciting federated.press announcement to share:
We just released an integration with News Detective—a new project to reduce misinformation on social media and teach media literacy with built-in transparency. They're part of MIT's Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, and are working with journalism students and the public to promote media literacy.
Read on to learn more. 👀👇
#Journalism #Misinformation #MediaLiteracy #Mastodon #FederatedPress #NewsDetective
My rules for #MediaLiteracy:
1. Always critically read at least 3 versions of any news story before coming to any conclusions.
2. Know or research the reputation and bias of each story's publisher and author.
3. Never believe anything completely. 99.999% confidence is fine, but leave room for doubt because once our brains believe something, information opposed to that belief is automatically filtered out of our awareness. (science knows this - it's why studies are double blind)
and...
📚 New research examines the marketing strategies used to promote vapes / e-cigarettes in Australia & New Zealand.
⭐ Health claims include:
▪️ "vaping has been proven to be up to 95% less harmful than smoking cigarettes"
▪️ "you will feel your breathing improve in a matter of days"
❓ What impact might these marketing strategies have on young people?
❓ Are marketers legally responsible if they make false health claims? Do they have a moral responsibility?
✔️ Create a fact-based ad for vape products. Do not use glamorous imagery. Instead, use images that reflect the reality of the health and environmental impacts from using vape products. Include citations to support any facts used in your ad.
@edutooters @publichealth @communicationscholars @theconversationau #PublicHealth #Vape #Smoking #Teachers #Education #MediaLiteracy #HealthLiteracy #DigitalLiteracy
Mind map drawing example & free #wakelet educator’s guide by Manuel Herrera @manuelherrera33
https://wakelet.com/wake/76cc922c-35c8-4033-897d-4b2cfeb0b740
#NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy
Great student sketching lesson idea! Similar to my lesson “All About Me / All About Us” “Identity Collage” https://mdtech.casady.org/lessons/identity-collage with Google Slides But with drawing!
via Manuel Herrera #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy
Articles on the science / #EduResearch value of students sketching ideas! via Manuel Herrera @manuelherrera33 #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy
Sketching the US Supreme Court by Manuel Herrera @manuelherrera33 #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy
Amazing drawn / sketched PEOPLE by Manuel Herrera @manuelherrera33 #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy
Examples of drawn / sketched objects that are all combinations of simple shapes: Manuel Herrera @manuelherrera33 #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy
Session description - Manuel Herrera “Drawing as a Thinking Process” #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy