Fake Facts Flood: Keeping Up, Maintaining Perspective & Other Constructive Responses: February 17, 2017

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Fake Facts Flood: Keeping Up, Maintaining Perspective & Other Constructive Responses. Part 3

Planners/Contributors: 
Ilene Frank (Multiple Sites), Librarian;
Kae Novak, Instructional Designer & Student Success Coordinator for Online Learning, Front Range Community College

TLT Group Moderators: Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Sally Gilbert

Date: 2/10/2017
Time:
1:30 - 1:45 PM ET  pre session.
1:40 - 1:55 PM ET Exchange Steam
1:55 - 2:00 PM ET Technology Orientation
2:00 -3:00 PM ET Main event.
3:00 - 3:30 PM ET After thoughts

Description:  

On one hand we are still exploring these issues, in addition during this session we will offer at least one tangible use resource or recommendation related to:

1. How to stay afloat and avoid the sandbars as we're swept along in the flood of information?
2. How to identify, redirect or transform "willful ignorance" and 
3. How some humor can provide relief and perspective but other kinds can confuse and antagonize.

Explore need, feasibility of 1-pager of advice/guidance on constructive responses to fake news etc (based partly on updating CRAP test.

You are invited to come early if you are interested in raising a topic for future, "blowing off steam" and exchanging of information.

Agenda

• How to stay afloat
  
• Willful igorance
  
• Humor
  
• Next Steps (Series as One Step at a time) Actions, Tasks, Directions
  
• Activism
  

Resources from Ilene Frank, Librarian

• “Evaluating News” Annotated Resources, https://goo.gl/7VqRty  
  Topics:  Verify;  Courses, Assignments;  Glossary;  Google Search;  
  Can We Trust Government Websites?  

• “Fake News, Misleading News, Biased News”  http://libguides.hccfl.edu/fakenews
  Includes:  Articles about fake news;  Evaluating Sources;  Assignments on Evaluating Sources;  Terms and Definitions.  Other Useful Resources

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