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Checkology® Virtual Classroom can help teach your students how to tell the difference between fact and fiction? Get started with a basic account today! Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
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"What was once the Information Age is rapidly becoming the Disinformation Age, where any information online can be used to support any viewpoint, even those that are patently false. With unrestricted internet access just a few taps on the smartphone away, it is impossible to monitor our students’ online activities constantly. We cannot be on hand to tell them what is right or wrong or true or false. Sometimes, we’re not even sure ourselves.
As educators, it falls to us to teach our students a measure of responsibility when they go online. The internet has infiltrated almost every aspect of education. We use it to take attendance, contact parents, look for activities, and do research. Our hope is that our students are using it for research and educational games." Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
Cynthia Cuellar's curator insight,
June 12, 2022 11:31 PM
As educators, we now have the capability to monitor our student's online activity during the school day on their school-issued devices but not on their own personal devices. A classroom management platform called GoGuardian helps educators monitor student online activity on their school devices. Yes we can't be with our students and monitor their activity 24/7 we can trust what they have learned a digital citizens and the examples we have set will be a positive journey.
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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
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"News has evolved, and how you read it needs to evolve too. It’s not about going to one site any more. It’s also not about reading through social networks.
Ruth Reynolds's curator insight,
July 28, 2017 7:38 PM
This sounds like a good way to help students develop media literacy. Check multiple sources. Focus on a single topic of interest for our current studies.
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It’s a term with a lot of pejorative and partisan baggage, but ‘fake news’ describes a real problem: Media that’s custom-made to fool you. Globe digital editor Evan Annett offers some pointers on how to avoid falling for hoaxes
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You may remember hearing about the terrifying hoax that occurred on the eve of Halloween in 1938. A radio broadcast of Orson Wells, War of the Worlds, purported that Martians had invaded earth. The program created a nationwide panic. It seemed so real; Americans believed it.
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"For today’s Weekly App Series we’ve found six great apps to add to your iPad collection. We have included six essential news and news reader apps in this week’s bundle."
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We live in dynamic times, and it can be extremely valuable as well as thought provoking to have an opportunity to listen to an insightful scholar share analysis about our evolving information landscape. This evening, thanks to a tweet from Jackie Gerstein, I watched an hour long lecture presented by danah boyd (@zephoria) recently in Detroit focusing on “The Future of Information.” To understand our present and future, danah related (among other things) stories of how troll culture has emerged and become a significant part of our media environment which confuses many and leaves people wondering who to trust.
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How can educators teach elementary and middle school students to be critical consumers of news and media? We asked media literacy experts—teachers and librarians—for their best tips. Here’s what they had to say.
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Checkology® Virtual Classroom is a news- and media-literacy learning platform created by the News Literacy Project. Checkology’s aim is to help students more critically navigate today’s ever-changing media and digital landscape. The site boasts four modules that each contain lessons, student challenges, and discussions. The lessons’ panelists are journalists from the New York Times, Buzzfeed, and the Washington Post, to name a few. There’s also a “check tool” that allows students to evaluate the credibility of any piece of news they may be uncertain of, following the news-literacy principles they learned throughout checkology’s lessons
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"Twitter, Facebook and other prominent new social and online media platforms have a very different structure to any free press vehicle we have seen in the modern world. There is no third party editing process by a recognized and respected media brand (which would include fact checking and a professional editorial review). Content “as is” is simply shared among a multitude of users. Respected traditional news outlets have also endured criticism and hardships. Competition from the new web companies has challenged them in a way that, according to the Pew research center, “goes far beyond the financial side, to the very core elements of the news industry itself.” ` How does one speak credibly without ‘the filter of the Fake News,’ how do we judge who is telling the ‘truth,’ and most important for our article today, how do we teach our children what they should believe in a new era of fake news? Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Jim Lerman
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NewsFlash is a relatively new breaking news and headlines RSS reader app for the iPad and iPhone. It uses quite a simple interface and offers breaking news and top stories from around the world and in a number of languages.
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