Introduction
The purpose of this Distance Education project is to teach students about evaluating news sources. The learning concepts covered are media literacy and information literacy. The key learning objectives are as follows:
- At the conclusion of this activity students will be able to use Web 2.0 tools to curate and annotate Five news stories
- At the conclusion of this activity, students will demonstrate the ability to differentiate between sources of various levels of credibility found on Social Media
The lesson is intended to be used in a Higher Education setting, preferably with Undergraduates. Prerequisite knowledge that would be useful for students as they undertake these activities are:
- Familiarity with social media (particularly Facebook and Twitter)
- Familiarity with online research
- Familiarity with Blackboard/ D2L
- Familiarity with Google Slides
The tools that will be used as a part of this project are:
- Hypothes.is : You will use this to annotate live on the web
- Follow the instructions to Sign up for a Hypothesis Account and install the plug-in. Hypothes.is works best with Google Chrome.
- Twitter : You will use this to find news stories to evaluate
- Jing: You will use this to take screenshots
- Google Slides: You will use either this or PowerPoint to create your presentation
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