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Tessa Jolls w/Jason Ohler
- Nov 14, 2017
- 15 min
INTERVIEW: More News on Fake News
We are very honored to share this fascinating interview by Tessa Jolls of the Consortium for Media Literacy. She interviews Jason Ohler, Professor emeritus of educational technology and virtual learning, as well as a distinguished President's Professor, University of Alaska and Professor in Fielding Graduate University's Media Psychology PhD program. Tessa Jolls (TJ) : Jason, in your essay you explained how we as humans are hardwired to believe fake news. There’s this notion
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Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, Exec. Director
- Oct 27, 2017
- 3 min
Beyond Identifying Fake News: Helping Students Explore Media in A Deeper Way
Editor's Note: As part of our support for the 3rd annual U.S. Media Literacy Week taking place November 6-10, 2017, this post written by Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, Executive Director for National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), is reposted from MyOn.com, a media literacy education platform that encourages students to keep reading year-round. In my [latest] blog, Verify, Verify, Verify: An Essential Media Literacy Skill, I provided three tips to help students
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Cyberwise
- Sep 7, 2017
- 1 min
Watch a Cyber Civics Lesson on CBC News
We were visited recently by CBC News recently because they wanted to see how we teach "media literacy" to 8th grade students in a Cyber Civics class. Oh, and without using computers, by the way. For this lesson students used the C.R.A.P. Detection skills learned in a previous lesson (this is an acronym devised by Howard Rheingold of Stanford University, and it provides students with an unforgettable mechanism for evaluating and identifying falsehoods online). Students used th
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Jason Ohler
- Aug 16, 2017
- 5 min
What’s the Real Problem with Fake News? We Are Wired to Believe It.
A football game in 1951 inspired what would become a landmark study in psychology. Dartmouth and Princeton squared off in an end of season match that turned ugly, resulting in a broken nose, a broken leg and a flurry of penalties. The game’s lack of sportsmanship became the topic of much public debate, with each side blaming the other for the lack of civility on the field. Psychologists Drs. Hadley and Cantril, from Dartmouth and Princeton respectively, decided to study the d
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