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Topic 2 Reflection – How to make you see fake news!

What surprised me the most…  Whilst reading about media literacy and fake news, it surprised me how problematic fake news is, but paradoxically I suppose, I didn’t expect any less from an increasingly digital world. The problem of fake news! After writing about media literacy, my attention was directed towards how to combat fake news. Continue reading →

Make News Great Again

This week I feel like the content I produced, compared to other weeks, was not up to scratch. I couldn’t get my head around how to approach the topic of ‘Fake News’ and I think that that is evident from this week’s blog post and the poor structuring of it. I tried to take on board comments from last week’s feedback about having headings, and while I agree that headings are a good idea I think the implementation of them made the flow of my blog suffer. Continue reading →

Make News Great Again

This week I feel like the content I produced, compared to other weeks, was not up to scratch. I couldn’t get my head around how to approach the topic of ‘Fake News’ and I think that that is evident from this week’s blog post and the poor structuring of it. I tried to take on board comments from last week’s feedback about having headings, and while I agree that headings are a good idea I think the implementation of them made the flow of my blog suffer. Continue reading →

Make News Great Again

This week I feel like the content I produced, compared to other weeks, was not up to scratch. I couldn’t get my head around how to approach the topic of ‘Fake News’ and I think that that is evident from this week’s blog post and the poor structuring of it. I tried to take on board comments from last week’s feedback about having headings, and while I agree that headings are a good idea I think the implementation of them made the flow of my blog suffer. Continue reading →

Make News Great Again

This week I feel like the content I produced, compared to other weeks, was not up to scratch. I couldn’t get my head around how to approach the topic of ‘Fake News’ and I think that that is evident from this week’s blog post and the poor structuring of it. I tried to take on board comments from last week’s feedback about having headings, and while I agree that headings are a good idea I think the implementation of them made the flow of my blog suffer. Continue reading →

Make News Great Again

This week I feel like the content I produced, compared to other weeks, was not up to scratch. I couldn’t get my head around how to approach the topic of ‘Fake News’ and I think that that is evident from this week’s blog post and the poor structuring of it. I tried to take on board comments from last week’s feedback about having headings, and while I agree that headings are a good idea I think the implementation of them made the flow of my blog suffer. Continue reading →

Reflection post- Topic 2

Reflecting on the topic:  From reading a range of different blogs, I can conclude that finding reliable and authentic information is challenging. Reflecting upon Luke’s (2018) blog only highlighted the importance of our information, data and media literacy in differentiating fact from fake.  I found it important to ask myself a few questions about my engagement with the web (see Figure 1)!  Questions to ask myself about my engagement with the web (Created on Piktochart by Boyle, 2018). Continue reading →

A reflection on Filter Bubbles and Fake News

In this weeks blog post I attempted to create my own video using PowToon again. I still find this process very hard, however also embedded other useful information into the blog to aid the points I was making. The general consensus from people’s blogs was that people often see such news spread across social media, however make sure to double check stories they see as suspicious. Continue reading →

A reflection on Filter Bubbles and Fake News

In this weeks blog post I attempted to create my own video using PowToon again. I still find this process very hard, however also embedded other useful information into the blog to aid the points I was making. The general consensus from people’s blogs was that people often see such news spread across social media, however make sure to double check stories they see as suspicious. Continue reading →

A reflection on Filter Bubbles and Fake News

In this weeks blog post I attempted to create my own video using PowToon again. I still find this process very hard, however also embedded other useful information into the blog to aid the points I was making. The general consensus from people’s blogs was that people often see such news spread across social media, however make sure to double check stories they see as suspicious. Continue reading →

A reflection on Filter Bubbles and Fake News

In this weeks blog post I attempted to create my own video using PowToon again. I still find this process very hard, however also embedded other useful information into the blog to aid the points I was making. The general consensus from people’s blogs was that people often see such news spread across social media, however make sure to double check stories they see as suspicious. Continue reading →

We’ll believe nearly anything

This topic has definitely given me some insight into how people interpret content they see online. Majority of people live in echo chambers and filter bubble without realising, so they don’t see any need to change the way they interact with the web. After reading Hong’s post, I realised that the use of Personal Learning Networks can help with avoiding filter bubbles, but it is more effective with escaping echo chambers. Continue reading →

We’ll believe nearly anything

This topic has definitely given me some insight into how people interpret content they see online. Majority of people live in echo chambers and filter bubble without realising, so they don’t see any need to change the way they interact with the web. After reading Hong’s post, I realised that the use of Personal Learning Networks can help with avoiding filter bubbles, but it is more effective with escaping echo chambers. Continue reading →

We’ll believe nearly anything

This topic has definitely given me some insight into how people interpret content they see online. Majority of people live in echo chambers and filter bubble without realising, so they don’t see any need to change the way they interact with the web. After reading Hong’s post, I realised that the use of Personal Learning Networks can help with avoiding filter bubbles, but it is more effective with escaping echo chambers. Continue reading →

Topic 2: “We are not the arbiters of truth”

In the world of tweets and hashtags, is it surprising that falsified information travels faster and further across the rails of the social network than real news? (Vosoughi, 2018) The truth is the power of novelty and the emotion churning nature of a fictitious title and fabricated content drives engagements through impressions in the digital sphere (Kantar Millward Brown, 2017). We call it ClickBait.  Take a look at the engagements on the U.S. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Assessing Online Information

  Social media is currently the fastest carrier of information, providing instant news much quicker to a wider audience, as opposed to more traditional news outlets and sources (John Hopkins Sheridan Library, 2017). Though, when we evaluate the differences between print sources and online information we are able to identify distinctions between the quality of sources and how to be wary when using online sources. Created by Yusra Huque-Dowlet using Piktochart. Reference: Elmer E. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Assessing Online Information

  Social media is currently the fastest carrier of information, providing instant news much quicker to a wider audience, as opposed to more traditional news outlets and sources (John Hopkins Sheridan Library, 2017). Though, when we evaluate the differences between print sources and online information we are able to identify distinctions between the quality of sources and how to be wary when using online sources. Created by Yusra Huque-Dowlet using Piktochart. Reference: Elmer E. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Assessing Online Information

  Social media is currently the fastest carrier of information, providing instant news much quicker to a wider audience, as opposed to more traditional news outlets and sources (John Hopkins Sheridan Library, 2017). Though, when we evaluate the differences between print sources and online information we are able to identify distinctions between the quality of sources and how to be wary when using online sources. Created by Yusra Huque-Dowlet using Piktochart. Reference: Elmer E. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Assessing Online Information

  Social media is currently the fastest carrier of information, providing instant news much quicker to a wider audience, as opposed to more traditional news outlets and sources (John Hopkins Sheridan Library, 2017). Though, when we evaluate the differences between print sources and online information we are able to identify distinctions between the quality of sources and how to be wary when using online sources. Created by Yusra Huque-Dowlet using Piktochart. Reference: Elmer E. Continue reading →

Effective Learning Online: The Three Literacies We Need

The Web has become one of the biggest sources for gathering and providing information in our society and an invaluable resource for students in all tiers of education (Walraven, Brand-Gruwel and Boshuizen, 2009). This means that digital literacy is as important as ever to practice and develop to ensure the information we gather online is reliable and authentic. A major aspect of digital literacy is learning to manage, access and evaluate the information we find online. Continue reading →