Various ways in which to identify and avoid misinformation online. 

How to Avoid Fake News

Go into the voting booth to cast your vote.

2020 Sample Ballot for West Orange.pdf

Click on the 2020 Sample Ballot (above) to see who is running against who.

Voting Ballot

Teacher Resource - <a href="https://njmockelection.org/">New Jersey Mock Election</a> Register your class for the NJ Mock Election and access resources to teach the 2020 Presidential Election.

Media Literacy: Zoning Information

Before you share anything on social media make sure it is: 1. Factual 2. Informative 3. Impartial 4. Not based on Filter Bubbles or Clickbait

Lesson #1 Fake News and the Presidential Election

The original ‘fake news’? ‘War of the Worlds’ at 80. Old Fashion Clickbait. USA Today, Octoboer 31, 2018

The original ‘fake news’? ‘War of the Worlds’ at 80

Questions To Ask Yourself 1. Do you think the public could be fooled again like it was in 1938? 2. If a stunt like this was pulled today what steps would you take to find out if it was true or not? 3. What was the first thing that came into your mind after viewing this video?

Fake News Part II Social Media Presentation

Fake News: Lesson #2 Social Media Presentation

Lesson #2 Can You Spot Fake News? Pas Deux = Part Two (Social Media)

Lesson #2 Can You Spot Fake News? Pas Deux = Part Two (Social Media) In this lesson you will learn how to: 1. Understand the manipulative nature of social media 2. Understand what a filter bubbles and are and how to recognize or avoid them 3. Recognize strategies to become responsible social media consumers Definition manipulative: influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one's own purpose.

Lesson #1 Fake News and the PresidentialElection...................................1 Lesson #2 Can You Spot Fake News? Pas Deux = Part Two (Social Media).......9 Lesson #3 Bias in Mass Media....................................................................21

Filter Bubbles Isolate You You will not realizing what the Algorithms are keeping from you, they don't ask permission to look at what your are consuming online, and it doesn't tell you what it is keeping from you.

YOU CAN NOT AVOID IT You have to realize Filter Bubbles are only giving you part of all the information online. You can not make educated or good judgements with the information you have, or don't have. Filter Bubbles contribute to a lack of understanding and the inability to see someone else's point of view. How do you deal Filter Bubbles and how do we know what you are missing? No Answers Yet! (it is being worked on by the tech companies) KEEP FILTER BUBBLES IN MIND MAKE IT A POINT TO SEEK OUT NEW PERSPECTIVES.

<a href="https://middlebury.libguides.com/internet/fact-checking">Non-partisan Fact Checking Sites</a>

<a href="https://middlebury.libguides.com/internet/fact-checking">Middlebury College Library, 2020</a> <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/">FactCheck.org</a> Annenberg Political Factcheck - a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. 'Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players.' <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/">FactChecker (Washington Post)</a> Weekly blog from the Washington Post. <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/">PolitiFact.com</a> From the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly.&nbsp;Has a 'Truth-O-Meter' scorecard checking the attacks on the candidates (includes explanations). Also see their <a href="http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/">Punditfact</a> page. <a href="http://www.snopes.com/">Snopes.com</a> "Oldest and largest fact-checking site on the Internet". <a href="https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/">PunditFact</a> "Dedicated to checking the accuracy of claims by pundits, columnists, bloggers, political analysts, the hosts and guests of talk shows, and other members of the media." Last Updated: Sep 4, 2020 10:17 AM <a href="https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=620677&amp;p=4322330">UC Berkeley Real News/Fake News: About Fake News</a>

CLICKBAIT explained

What is Clickbait and why does it matter?  Click on the movie to learn how it affects you.

Record your reaction to filter bubbles and clickbait.

Reaction Jamboard

This book has been created to help you understand what you see online may or may not be true. The material will give you strategies on how to identify information that is not truthful and how to find information that will be true and informative for your school based assignments. This book is dedicated to <a href="https://www.biography.com/media-figure/walter-cronkite">Walter Cronkite</a> (1916–2009)

Click on the (-) button to access the Google Form 2020 Can you spot Fake News?

2020 Can you spot Fake News?

Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4

Supplemental Material presented by author John Green. The author delves into more detail about the author and their authority to post informative and correct information online.

Fake News: How A Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies | NBC News

Fake News: How A Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies | NBC News

YOUR NEWS MAY NOT BE NEWS AT ALL BUT JUST A WAY FOR SOMEONE TO MAKE MONEY$$$

Click on the movie to see how Filter Bubbles can mask what you see online.

How Filter Bubbles Isolate You

<a href="https://www.icivics.org/election">THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE</a>

Super-spreaders: The year's worst offenders for disinformation Check out this BBC report on who is spreading fake news.

🦠 Super-spreaders: The year's worst offenders for disinformation

THERE IS MORE THAN ONE FORM OF BIAS

ALL NEWS IS NOT REPORTED THE SAME

Interactive Media Bias Chart

Compiled by Mrs. Touzeau for the Liberty Middle School Social Studies Classes

Lesson #1 Fake News and the Presidential Election In this lesson you will learn how to: 1. Determine how to identify what the presidential candidates are saying. 2. Use strategies to identify fake or unreliable information. 3. Practice using these strategies on your own.

Vocabulary Algorithms are just step-by-step procedures for completing a task, performing a calculation, or solving a problem. Algorithms&nbsp;keep track of what you look at online. They show you content which it thinks you like. It will keep showing you what it thinks it likes. Filter Bubbles how you are isolated online from information and ideas. You are not aware of Filter Bubbles you do not know what information you are being isolated from. Clickbait content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page

Lesson #3 Mass Media In this lesson you will learn how to: 1. Understand where most people get their news from 2. Analyze how a. The ways media has bias b. The means in which news can be manipulated 3. Strategies to become responsible mass media consumers

Special Thank To and Works Cited from: <a href="https://www.adfontesmedia.com/">Ad Fontas Media</a> <a href="https://checkology.org">Checkology</a> <a href="https://cor.stanford.edu/">Civic Online Reasoning</a> <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/">Common Sense Media</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse">Crash Course</a> <a href="https://www.icivics.org/">iCivics</a> <a href="https://essexboardofelections.com/">Essex County Board of Elections</a> <a href="https://www.librarygirl.net/">Library Girl Jennifer LaGarde</a> <a href="https://eavi.eu/">Media Literacy For Citizenship</a> <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/library/">Middlebury College Library</a> <a href="https://www.newseum.org/">Newseum</a> <a href="https://njmockelection.org/">NJ Mock Election</a> <a href="https://communications.tufts.edu/marketing-and-branding/social-media-overview/#:~:text=Social%20media%20refers%20to%20the,in%20virtual%20communities%20and%20networks.&amp;text=Before%20creating%20any%20social%20media,submit%20the%20Account%20Request%20Form.">Tufts University Office of Communication &amp; Marketing</a> <a href="https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=620677&amp;p=4322330">UC Berkeley Library</a>

Chapter 3: Mass Media & Bias Presentation 

Lesson #3 Mass Media and Bias

*Fake News Who's Telling the Truth 2020

Click on the (-) to the right for the slide presentation.

2020 Presidential Election

Social Media: Is Your Breaking News Broken?

Click on the PDF to learn about more ways your need to be careful about what you are viewing online.

Should We Trust Breaking News on Social Media

After viewing the video click on the document to record what you know, what you are puzzled about and what you want to learn more about.

Beyond Fake News.pdf

2020 Social Media Voter Scorecard <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/social-media-voter-scorecard">https://www.commonsensemedia.org/social-media-voter-scorecard</a>

There are just 4 simple strategies to use when looking at any information online. 1. Who is the author of the website and what makes them qualified to post that material. 2. Using the domain to determine how reliable a site is. A&nbsp;domain name&nbsp;is the address where Internet users can access a website. 3. Using triangulation to find out if you can fine the same information in at least two (2) or more sites. 4. Looking at the quotes and images to see if they are making outrageous claims that could be incorrect

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