Tip & Strategies for Evaluating Fake News Keepin’ It Real Tip & Strategies for Evaluating Fake News AISHA

Presenters: Aisha Conner-Gaten, she/her/hers Instructional Design Librarian Jennifer Masunaga Reference & Instruction Librarian Desirae Zingarelli-Sweet Reference & Instruction Librarian for Theology AISHA

Lesson Outline https://www.projectcora.org/assignment/keepin-it-real-tips-and-strategies-evaluating-fake-news Inauguration Day @ LMU: concurrent sessions across campus Plan for the day Post-it exercise: Why are you here today? Do you think that fake news impacted the election? Fake News Scenario #1 - Think/Pair/Share with Donald Trump tweet & Uncle Bob Mini-Lecture on challenges for evaluating news including authenticity, bias, speed vs. accuracy, etc. Fake News Activity #2 - Reflection on information sources, mapping Reliability & Outlet type Tools & Strategies for information networks (Flip Your Feed, Allsides, BS Detector, etc.) Assessment: Google Quiz AISHA

JENN: http://academics.lmu.edu/teachin/breakoutsessions/ Students completing Activity 2 during Fake News Workshop at LMU. Lmulibrary. (2017, January 21). Students are debating the reliability of various media outlets like Occupy Democrats, The Blaze, and Buzzfeed. [Instagram post]. Retrieved from https://www.instagram.com/p/BPf-rv_Bg9L/?taken-by=lmulibrary JENN: http://academics.lmu.edu/teachin/breakoutsessions/ Example of comic assignment for Communication Studies course including Fake News Workshop content. Harai, C.O. (2017). "2017 Inauguration". Communication Studies Student Works. 25. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/commstudies_students/25

Making Connections: Authority is Constructed and Contextual Knowledge practices: "recognize that authoritative content may be packaged formally or informally and may include sources of all media types" "acknowledge they are developing their own authoritative voices in a particular area and recognize the responsibilities this entails, including seeking accuracy and reliability, respecting intellectual property, and participating in communities of practice” "understand the increasingly social nature of the information ecosystem where authorities actively connect with one another and sources develop over time" JENN

Making Connections: Social Justice & CritLib Knowledge practices (via Hinchcliffe & Saunders): "Analyze how information– both in its absence and its presence, in how it is created, arranged, accessed, etc.– informs opinions and beliefs about the people, ideas, or situations it represents or reflects” "Examine the ways that information can be used to persuade, promote, misinform, or coerce" Adapted from: Hinchliffe, L. & Saunders, L. (2015, November). Framing new frames: Expanding the conceptual space and boundaries. Slides presented at the LOEX Fall Focus conference, Ypsilanti, MI. Retrieved from https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/88407/LOEXFallFocus2015-HinchliffeSaunders.pdf?sequence=2 DESIRAE

Activity Time! DESIRAE

Where do you get your news? Pick one of your favorite/most used information sources e.g. Buzzfeed, Breitbart, etc. Situate it on the blank media chart on your handout. ALL

Thank You! Questions?