"Sorting Truth From Fiction: Civic Online Reasoning" is a Course materials drawn from MIT Open Learning and catalogued under Literature & Language Arts for Undergraduate / College. From the source: Learn teaching practices that help students become savvy consumers of digital information. Online misinformation is an urgent challenge faced by every country around the globe. Multiple studies have shined a light on people's difficulty in… Slide Collection preserves the upstream link, the original creator credit and the licensing terms; download the file to use it in a classroom, study group or revision plan.
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Learn teaching practices that help students become savvy consumers of digital information. Online misinformation is an urgent challenge faced by every country around the globe. Multiple studies have shined a light on people's difficulty in distinguishing truth from fiction, reliable information from sham. As we approach the November 2020 election, we can expect our screens to be flooded, even more so, with digital content that plays fast and loose with the truth. With educators from around the world and faculty from MIT and Stanford University, you will learn quick and effective practices for evaluating information online that you can bring back to your classroom. These practices have been distilled from observations with professional fact-checkers from the nation's most prestigious media outlets from across the political spectrum. Through reading activities, classroom practice lessons and assignments, you will learn how to teach the skills needed for making thoughtful judgments about online content. At the end of the course, you will have a better understanding of strategies to enhance your students' ability to evaluate information and to avoid common pitfalls of misinformation at a time when we need it most.
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