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Larry Romanoff on the Permanent Bullshit Blizzard

Part 1 of a series on how to recognise Western propaganda in the ‘news’ media. How to recognise the signs, and what it’s for. Illuminating:

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Thnks R - I wonder how this compares with the free MOOC available online:

"Sorting Truth From Fiction: Civic Online Reasoning

Learn teaching practices that help students become savvy consumers of digital information.

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There is one session available:

Starts May 11

Ends Aug 26"

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" About this course

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Fake news and misinformation pose an urgent challenge to citizens across the globe. Multiple studies have shined a light on people’s difficulty in distinguishing truth from fiction, reliable information from sham.

With educators from around the world and faculty from MIT and Stanford University, you will learn quick and effective practices for evaluating online information that you can bring back to your classroom. The Stanford History Education Group has distilled these practices from observations with professional fact-checkers from the nation’s most prestigious media outlets from across the political spectrum. Using a combination of readings, classroom practice lessons, and assignments, you will learn how to teach the critical thinking skills needed for making wise judgments about web sources.

At the end of the course, you will be better able to help students find reliable sources at a time when we need it most.

What you’ll learn

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Educators—from teachers to librarians—will learn about:

  • New knowledge that can be applied in your lessons and resources for your own students.
  • How to shift from ineffective information literacy practices towards the kinds of strategies employed by professional fact-checkers.

Syllabus

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Unit 1: Search Like a Fact Checker

Unit 2: The Two Big Fact Checker Moves: Lateral Reading & Click Restraint

Unit 3: Evaluating Different Types of Evidence

Unit 4: Adapting Civic Online Reasoning

Meet your instructors

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‘Professional fact-checkers’ - ! Sounds about as reassuring as the ‘Professors of Journalism’ of whom John Pilger speaks.

No hint in the brochure that these denizens of the Grove of Academe are any more aware of the possibility that they might be grabbing the shitty end of the stick than were the Scots to whom Cromwell said: “I beseech ye, in the bowels of Christ, to think it possible that ye may be mistaken!” But the Scots wouldn’t, and got hammered.