Fake news is becoming more and more prevalent in todays technological society. As technology advances, so does the means to create more realistic fake news. It was once so easy to distinguish fake news, with the ridiculously fabricated images and giant fonts, states Alec Couros and Katia Hildebrandt. Becoming digitally literate in todays society is extremely important for cutting out the fake news. People need to open their eyes and realize that not everything you read online is real. I need to become more digitally literate myself, in order to teach it to my future students. With this new age of online learning it is especially important that we are teaching our students how to filter out the fake news. Like Katia said in class on Tuesday, our search engines are more likely to give us results based on our previous preferences. For example, if you are someone who sees things from a left wing perspective, you are more likely to see the left wing stories in the news and on social media. Being aware of our personal biases can greatly help us decipher the fake news from the real. Another article by Alec Couros and Katia Hildebrandt states that students can use what is called a media bias chart. This chart places all of the news sources in categories based on credibility, which way they swing politically and what perspectives they are written from. Using this tool, students are able to see what types of content the different news sources produce, in order to see things from different perspectives. There is a resource in the weekly plans that has multiple lesson plans for fighting fake news with critical thinking. These are great tools to bring into the classroom to help combat the fake news and get students informed on the real things going on in our world. With technology becoming more and more prevalent in todays classrooms and with remote learning, it is not hard to incorporate skills and tools about how to effectively find information online. I still find myself falling for fake news sometimes if I don't do the proper research and take the proper channels to find accurate information. Being enrolled in this class has been extremely beneficial with improving my digital footprint, finding the fake news and searching for the correct information, and I think it will be super helpful going into the fall semester online. I do believe I chose to take this class at the right time and I am grateful for that!
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