“Our aim is to make you aware of the ease with which digital identities can be faked, and to help you spot these fakes at a single glance.” #MediaLit#digiURI#ConCW#MediaLiteracy#CIP
Now hearing from Mikko Salo @Faktabaari@NORDIShub@EDMO_EUI@FactBar: Founder of Faktabaari (FactBar) | Executive Member of EDMO NORDIS Hub | Former Member of the European Commission https://faktabaari.fi/edu/
The information diet of our students is often different from that of the adults (big gaps between young and old, that is cultural but seems to be a common issue across national boundaries”
Reading is KEY for the overall development of critical thinking & media literacy skills. There are no ‘silver bullets’ but strengthening educational institutions and capacity to develop reading skills among youth / citizens is KEY / hugely important.
SLOWING DOWN is so key when reading the web / consuming digital content now… TikTok is popular (especially) among youth in Finland as it is the USA. It’s a big issue of major concern in Finland now too… the VERSION of TIkTok seen by users in Finland & the USA is different than in China, very much a “black box” algorithmically to try to understand
We have found using symbols from “traffic lights” in Finnish media literacy curriculum has been helpful in conversations with students about misinformation (mistake) / disinformation (lie) / malformation (gossip).
Noted “gossip” may not be the best translation / alternate synonym for “malformation”
Using the term “curiosity” as a term which unites us / researchers, rather than polarizes us like terms like “fake news” or even “disinformation”
Sam Wineburg, others starting group out of Stanford History Group devoted as a nonprofit to evaluating different curricula when it comes to media literacy
LATERAL READING is a key skill to encourage and teach, we know from research this WORKS
Also “pre-bunking” (saying “these are the kinds of memes / tropes you are likely to see…”)