After reading this blog post, http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2015/11/answer-fake-or-real-how-do-you-know.html, it's important to reflect on my thinking!!
This challenge was pretty fun. I didn't really have a particular strategy to my guesses, but I think logic worked. The picture of the plane, for example, had to be fake because it was flying too close to the buildings. The "answer" page gave me many more reasons why it was fake, but mine seemed to work. The other two examples were just deduction, especially for the quote. The reviews, though, stumped me. They both seemed real, but I chose the more detailed one as the answer, although I made a note that it was probably the fake one because one of the road names or towns would be wrong!
Several years ago, my mom visited and told me about a story she had read about then-President GW Bush in which he had done something crazy --like, you knew it was fake. I asked her where she read it, and told her that the story wasn't on Chris Matthews news show, so it couldn't be true. She showed me the website, which ended up being The Onion --and online satirical view of the news. When I told her this, she was pretty embarrassed, but it made me view news in a different way. If some web page can dupe my mom - who is one smart lady -then what can it do to people who aren't more savvy?
Our political climate now is filled with "fake news" and "alternative facts" so it's hard to know what's real and what's not. I think it's more important than ever for educators in particular to pay attention to media literacy and teach our students to question and think critically about the media they consume.
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