Fake news websites claim that these daisies mutated due to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. They are abnormal due to the natural process of fasciation (also known as cresting).
Making an appearance every year is “hurricane shark”, a photo- shopped image of a shark swimming up a street during a hurricane or major storm causing flooding.
Newspapers reported that the cost of making British passports blue again would cost £500m, this amount was unsubstantiated from any source.
Working with teenagers After lunch, Peter Keep and Robin Pomeroy explained the fascinating new initiative run by The Charlotte Project. The Charlotte Project was set up in memory of Charlotte Cooper, a journalist who worked at Reuters and was passion- ate about engaging teenagers with news and information. The aims of the project are to provide students between the ages of 15 to 18 with some tools to enable them to navigate the maze of news, commentary and opinion disseminated on the web and via social media, help them to critically analyse and question what they are reading. Peter and Robin devised exercises for students to write their own checklists on how to spot fake news. They are rolling out the work- shops to more schools around London.
Echo chambers and filter bubbles Gwen Kent from the University of Bed- fordshire talked about initiatives around
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Soon after the Manchester Arena bombing was reported, people started posting fake concerns for fake victims. The boy on the left is modelling knitwear while the girl is living in Australia.
fake news that tied into the university’s strategic plan. These included book displays, blog posts, posters, guides, web marketing, a staff newsletter, and a very well-designed workshop. Gwen devised a clever game involving string and students that demonstrated how filter bubbles and echo chambers work online. The workshop emphasised the point that if students want to know if they are in an echo cham- ber they should discuss issues with their peers and see if their views hold up.
Fake news Fridays
Ute Manecke and Amanda Closier from The Open University introduced their unique library and student body, and explained that they had developed training initiatives around fake news because of its ubiquitous presence in the media. For four Fridays leading up to the General Election in 2017 they ran Fake News Fridays – live broadcasts on Facebook based on the IFLA
fake news infographic on how to spot fake news
https://bit.ly/2LVJSeO. Amanda demonstrated how to record live using Facebook. Future plans include creating Moodle activities around fake images, and presenting to the Open University Students’ Association conference on fake news.
Trash or treasure
Carol Price, Mandy Goode and Janice Wright from Birmingham City Univer- sity presented on how they support the Extended Project Qualification. They developed fake news materials from one of the workshops they run for these stu- dents, Trash or Treasure, because it is a timely issue, and they were worried that students believed everything they read! They use activities from Factitious, the BBC Schools site, and the Learning Network from The New York Times to engage students in practical activities.
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