Wesley Fryer

Did you miss Monday’s #MediaEd club webinar on “Conspiracy Theories & the 2024 US Election?”

The archived recording is available on YouTube! (38 min)
youtube.com/watch?v=Y5p4LuRSEB

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #MediaEdClub #digiURI #conspiracy #ConspiracyTheory #SIFT #WebLiteracy #edtech #edtechSR

Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦

PSA. Google makes it easier to check a source with three vertical dots ... this has been around about six months. University of Washington faculty helped nudge them to provide this service.

#misinformationi
#disinformation
#SIFT
#Google

Wesley Fryer

(1/2) For our culminating video project this semester in our “Froot Loop Conspiracy Theories” media literacy unit, my students are creating “Half Ignite Presentations.” These are 2.5 minute presentations, using 10 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds. Here’s my example video project:

Froot Loop Conspiracies Explained: SIFT + Lateral Reading = Media Literacy!
youtube.com/watch?v=ZWPibE9AcG

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #conspiracy #disinfo #misinfo #SIFT #NCed #edtech #edtechSR

Wesley Fryer

(2/2) along with original Apollo lunar archival video footage.

I love teaching students about media literacy, the #SIFT web literacy framework, and space #history!

#SpaceEd #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #NCed

Wesley Fryer

(2/2) & @samwineburg

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More links related to SIFT and media literacy are available on my “media literacy hub website:”
medialiteracy.wesfryer.com

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #NCed #SIFT

Center for an Informed Public

As A.W. Ohlheiser recently wrote in @Vox, the SIFT method, developed by digital literacy expert and CIP research scientist @mikecaulfield, "is a good framework for learning how to evaluate emotionally charged or outrage-inducing online posts in the middle of an unfolding crisis."

Read more in Vox: vox.com/technology/2023/10/12/
Learn more about SIFT: hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the

#MediaLiteracy #FactChecking #SIFT #Misinformation #UWCIP

Don’t believe everything you see and hear about Israel and Palestine

Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is easy to…

www.vox.com
Melissa

Tomorrow, chance to hear Mike Caulfield on @bryanalexandee's Future Trends Forum for #highereducation
"He developed the SIFT method for fact-checking (Stop, Investigate, Find better coverage, and Trace claims)" - from Caulfield's bio at @uwcip #sift #infolit
shindig.com/login/event/caulfi

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Wesley Fryer

This week’s media literacy lesson: “Brain Hacking InfoPics!”
lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/b

We are learning BY CREATING: “Advertising / InfoPics can ACTIVATE EMOTION”

#edtech #create2learn #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #SIFT #NCed #PDSchargers #advertising

Wesley Fryer

Media literacy lesson example: Buzz Aldrin and the “animation”
twitter.com/realstewpeters/sta

(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

#MediaLit #digiURI #ConCW #MediaLiteracy #CIP

Stew Peters on Twitter

“Why would Buzz Aldrin say this? 🤯 Is he trolling?”

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