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Readings: Student Online Reasoning, Loss of Trust, Etc.
- Stanford Study: Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning"Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak. " Nov. 22, 2016 This is the study that hit the news right after the election and told us what we already knew.
- Gallup: Americans' Trust in Mass Media Edges DownOne of the effects of fake news is distrust of all news. It's a vicious cycle.
- Calling Bullshit In the Age of Big DataAn entire online course about critical thinking, data, and research. A treasure trove of materials.
- How 'News Literacy' Gets Web Misinformation WrongThe Four Moves: a new way to look at News Evaluation. "...these three things — check previous work, go upstream, read laterally — are the core process. We call these things moves."
- The Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake NewsAn article from Wired Magazine about teenagers who made money inventing click-bait sensational political stories.
- Fear and Loathing in Homer and RockvilleThis American Life Episode: "Homer" is about a man in Alaska, who, though unskilled, determined to make an informed choice -- and how hard that was.
- "Did Media Literacy Backfire?" and "You think you want media literacy: Do You?"The link leads to the first of these: the second link: https://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2 leads to further discussion.
- Project Information Literacy's List of Readings about COVID and MisinformationMany many good articles here, including a list appropriate for classroom readings.