[OYAN] Fake News & Information / Media Literacy

[Keli Yeats]

This gives me a focus for some middle and high school visits I've got
coming up.

On Nov 23, 2016 11:17 AM, "Katie Anderson" <katie.anderson at state.or.us>
wrote:

> Many of you may be interested in the following email that was just sent
> out on the listserv for school libraries, especially those of you who do a
> lot of homework help or have tutors working with students in your
> library.—Katie
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> Fake news sites have become a problem, and a lot is being written about
> them right now. Here are a few articles, resources, and a video that caught
> my eye. Most either show that students need help evaluating online (all!)
> information or offer suggestions for what to teach students.
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> In *Education Week*'s “Why Students Can’t Google Their Way to the Truth,”
> the authors note that the “research we've conducted at Stanford University
> supports these findings [of lack of evaluative skills]. Over the past 18
> months, we administered assessments that tap young people's ability to
> judge online information. We analyzed over 7,804 responses from students in
> middle school through college. At every level, we were taken aback by
> students' lack of preparation: middle school students unable to tell the
> difference between an advertisement and a news story; high school students
> taking at face value a cooked-up chart from the Minnesota Gun Owners
> Political Action Committee; college students credulously accepting a .org
> top-level domain name as if it were a Good Housekeeping seal.” The article
> goes on to list three things they've noticed that fact-checkers do, and
> then notes that "none of this is rocket science. But it's often not taught
> in school. In fact, some schools have special filters that direct students
> to already vetted sites, effectively creating a generation of bubble
> children who never develop the immunities needed to ward off the toxins
> that float across their Facebook feeds, where students most often get their
> news. This approach protects young people from the real world rather than
> preparing them to deal with it." I haven't read it yet, but I noticed a
> second article called, "Do Educators Need Media Literacy as Much as
> Students Do?"
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> http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/11/02/why-
> students-cant-google-their-way-to.html
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> http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/
> 2016/11/do_educators_need_media_literacy_as_much_as_students_do.html
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> *The Wall Street Journal* recently posted an interesting article, "Most
> Students Don't Know When News is Fake, Stanford Study Finds," in which
> they state this as potential issues: "However, fewer schools now have
> librarians, who traditionally taught research skills. And media literacy
> has slipped to the margins in many classrooms, to make room for increased
> instruction in basic reading and math skills."
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> http://www.wsj.com/articles/most-students-dont-know-when-
> news-is-fake-stanford-study-finds-1479752576
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> This video is from a group in Sweden and strives to illustrate the
> different outcomes when folks fact check versus carelessly spread fake
> news.
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> https://www.facebook.com/viralgranskaren/videos/903344656432437/
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> These two posts and additional resources offer ideas for teaching students
> how to evaluate sources and to be media literate. In the Middle Web
> article, the author shares the following after listing advice from another
> source: "I’d add another one here: students who receive these fake news
> posts should challenge the sender of the message. I think we need to make
> those 'media illiterate' consumers more aware of their role in spreading
> untruths. Students can help."
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> *Knowledge Quest *blog: http://knowledgequest.
> aasl.org/information-literacy-lessons-crucial-post-truth-world/
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> Middle Web: http://www.middleweb.com/33386/students-need-our-help-
> detecting-fake-news/
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> Center for Media Literacy: http://www.medialit.org/educator-resources
> http://www.medialit.org/educator-resources
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> National Association for Media Literacy Education:
> https://namle.net/category/resources/
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> More resources, gathered by Media Literacy Now: http://medialiteracynow.
> org/resources/
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> If you have any go-to resources on this topic, please share with us on the
> listserv.
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> Happy Thanksgiving!
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> Jen
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