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Half Bakes, Double Takes and Deepfakes : 21st Century Literacies Needed

If we only look at the news we like, we won’t have another point of view to consider, and if we don’t have another point of view, it is hard to make an educated decision about what we believe. And if we don’t make educated decisions we may fall down a rabbit hole and start believing that Alex Trebek was an alien. But he wasn’t. So don’t do that.

March 19, 2021 · Leave a comment

The Unreliable Narrator and News Literacy

Tired of unreliable narrators in your news feed? Stanford University’s Civic Online Reasoning approach boils news literacy down to three essential questions:
Who’s behind the information?
What’s the evidence?
What do other sources say?

September 4, 2020 · Leave a comment