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College students & misinformation: teaching fact-checking 101 https://inquirygroup.substack.com/p/factchecking101 #education #LateralReading

'We narrowed the focus of our program to skills essential to being an informed citizen, such as “lateral reading” − that is, using the full context of the internet to judge the quality of a claim, identify the people or organizations behind it and assess their credibility. Rather than fixate solely on the message, we taught students to vet the messenger'

#mediaLiteracy #internet #misinformation #education #lateralReading

https://theconversation.com/college-students-are-bombarded-by-misinformation-so-this-professor-taught-them-fact-checking-101-heres-what-happened-262409

> .. cognitive strategies for critical ignoring: #SelfNudging.. ignores temptations by removing them from one’s.. environments; #LateralReading.. vets information by leaving the source and verifying its credibility elsewhere online.. the #DoNotFeedTheTrolls heuristic, which advises one to not reward malicious actors with attention. We argue that these strategies implementing #CriticalIgnoring should be part of.. #DigitalInformationLiteracy.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214221121570
/HT @Chloeg

“Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214221121570

#criticalignoring
#deliberateignorance
#self-nudging
#lateralreading
#digitalinformation
#criticalthinking

“Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214221121570

#criticalignoring
#deliberateignorance
#self-nudging
#lateralreading
#digitalinformation
#criticalthinking

“Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214221121570

#criticalignoring
#deliberateignorance
#self-nudging
#lateralreading
#digitalinformation
#criticalthinking

“Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214221121570

#criticalignoring
#deliberateignorance
#self-nudging
#lateralreading
#digitalinformation
#criticalthinking

“Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214221121570

#criticalignoring
#deliberateignorance
#self-nudging
#lateralreading
#digitalinformation
#criticalthinking