Books, pens, notebooks... it’s that time of year 📚!
As the new school year begins, we know addressing topics such as #disinformation with students can be challenging. But no worries, teachers—we’ve got you covered!
Our toolkit on ‘how to spot and fight disinformation’ is the perfect resource to equip your students with key online skills:
✏️ Understanding disinformation
📏 Recognizing how it spreads
📘 Learning how to respond
Check it out → https://europa.eu/!JB9JDn
@EUCommission This seems notably lacking when there are approaches like Lateral Reading (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3048994 ) & SIFT ( https://hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/ ) out there. In terms of specifics: slide 17 ("When in doubt check") puts what Lateral Reading & SIFT centre (trusted coverage of others) as final point - that slide also centres things that feature in a dated checklist approach to evaluating sources discussed here https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qq566ny0539/Instructional%20Approaches%20to%20Spotting%20Misinformation%20%28in%20press%29%20College%20%26%20Research%20Libraries.pdf . It also over relies on official factchecks in place of tools