Educators
with so much material available on line it is your responsibility to help provide students with the tools to evaluate the information that they find. They will need to examine the soure of a website or article and determine the veracity. Giving them guidance and practice will help them be sucessful curators of knowledge.
Fake News
There are lots of conversations about Fake News around and how we can determine what is opinion and what is spin. Use your phone to play the following app which is designed by Margaret Farley in the game lab at America University.
Factitious
The game's interface mimics the dating app Tinder, which made swiping famous. On a phone, players swipe left when they think the article in front of them is fake, and right when they believe it's real. Depending on how you swipe, Factitious provides feedback. Whether your swipe was correct or incorrect, whether the article cites sources that can be checked, whether the story includes direct quotes from credible sources.
Stumped? If so, there is a clue. You can click to reveal the article's source. Link to game
What is content curation? Pulling together information is an important part of research, and then storing that information in such a way that it is easily accessed at a later date is equally important. Curation tools are ways of capturing, organising and holding useful information to be accessed at a later day. (You have already seen Scoop.it and Bag the Web examples in previous activities.)
You need to decide, by examining the tools below, which curation tool you will use for your inquiry and then start searching and collating
Factitious
The game's interface mimics the dating app Tinder, which made swiping famous. On a phone, players swipe left when they think the article in front of them is fake, and right when they believe it's real. Depending on how you swipe, Factitious provides feedback. Whether your swipe was correct or incorrect, whether the article cites sources that can be checked, whether the story includes direct quotes from credible sources.
Stumped? If so, there is a clue. You can click to reveal the article's source. Link to game
What is content curation? Pulling together information is an important part of research, and then storing that information in such a way that it is easily accessed at a later date is equally important. Curation tools are ways of capturing, organising and holding useful information to be accessed at a later day. (You have already seen Scoop.it and Bag the Web examples in previous activities.)
You need to decide, by examining the tools below, which curation tool you will use for your inquiry and then start searching and collating