515: Week 7

Week 7 Media & News Part II

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This week's survey reveals-we love getting news from social media! Youtube FB Insta TikTok X Other--Radio

Rutgers Emerging Literacies Students Get News From Social Media--Insta Wins!

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This week's survey also reveals that we turn to the New York Times and other newspapers. NYT WSJ Washington Post CNN USA Today Google Other: NPR, Ground.News, Reuters, Associated Press, Allsides.com, & Apple News App

Rutgers Emerging Literacies Students get News from Newspapers Too--New York Times Comes Out On Top!

We Have Been Inspired and/or made changes by this week and lasts Content

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Word Cloud created from everyone's answer to the inspiration question

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Those of us that work with students have been inspired and or made changes too.

wordcloud made with the responses to the student inspiration changes question.

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Just like our Students!

They humor us and motivate us in ways that can be both uplifting and challenging. It's important to recognize their influence and how they shape our experiences. They are truly omnipresent! You can find them on multiple platforms, and we not only share them but also actively post them everywhere, engaging with them in our daily lives.

Memes, Memes, Memes: We Can't Get Enough!

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Our favorites include Side Eye Chloe, Willy Wonka, and GOT Brace Yourself. Many of us could not choose! One participant responded, "That's a really hard question! I can't really choose just one!"

A favorite!

But as we have been discussing this week and last there is a dark side to meme's too.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_Eyeing_Chloe

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And Memes May Be Shaping Our Views On War!

"Social media aesthetics shape views and understanding of the Ukraine invasion."

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Similarly, so too is AI: Our Talk About Dimitri:

Is it the responibility of AI, the people that use AI or is it the people duped by AI. In discussing Dimitri we touched upon these views. "AI will only rapidly accelerate these operations, and potentially, make us easier to fool." Emma Steere "Dimitri is an opportunistic teenager (who makes well over my salary) and preys on America’s failing online literacy, which is awful. But I like him, for some reason. He has chutzpah." Ana Beste "Unless it becomes more regulated, spinning up these sites would be easier to accomplish." Lauren Popp

Dr. Seuss's Sylvester McMonkey McBean https://x.com/joshcarlosjosh/status/1686772063942664192

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In this week's survey, I asked what content and activities have you added to your toolbox. Your answers: https://www.commonsense.org/education/collections/essential-news-media-literacy-skills-for-students News Literacy Project - Checkology Common Sense Media Stanford's Civic Online Reasoning Newseum "Definitely the speeding vs. braking game! I think it is incredibly informative and engaging."

I also asked what you dream of having. Your answers: I wish there was something like grammarly for identifying misinformation online. If you're on a site or a social media post, having something right there that could fact check or identify something false would be so helpful "tool similar to google's image reverse searching feature but where students can input articles, photos, and videos with news they are unsure about so they can see where else it is posted/where it originated from"

What Can We Do?

Collect , curate, & create!

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I would love a Chrome extension or an app that would automatically debunk a post using information from Snopes, Factcheck.org, and Reuters. "Honestly, more time in my curriculum to do it and the standards (I know they are coming down the pipeline!)!" "A fake news to reality decoder ring."

"I really enjoyed some of the handouts in the evidence locker for Digital Detectives. I would love to have a workbook full of them so my students can work through it and practice their analytical skills." "Also, I would love just a whole collection of middle school appropriate social media posts that cover relevant topics all in one Google Slides document as a daily practice exercise." I will be using Jennifer's lens resources!

More of What We Dream For

There are some amazing ideas here. I don't know about the decoder ring, but the others seem doable at some point. We could even collectively start that Google slide show!

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Lastly, Some Resources and Activities for Our toolboxes, Inspired by This Week's Class Discussion and Survey.

Media Literacy News Sources:

Newseum

Edutopia

NewLit

ALA

NewLit.org

NYT