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U-M Course Aims To Help Students Spot ‘Fake News’
CBS Detroit ^ | February 16, 2017 5:20 PM | Staff

Posted on 02/20/2017 7:23:35 AM PST by Eddie01

One of the course designers, Doreen Bradley, director of learning programs and initiatives at the U-M Library, says misinformation, disinformation, half-truths and propaganda have always been around, but are these days so readily sharable that students encounter a much greater volume than ever before.

Students taking the class will:
•Learn how to find trusted sources of statistics.
•Be challenged to confront their own biases.
•Consider how their opinions, and the opinions of others, can affect the interpretation of news items.
•Practice dissecting a news graph in order to understand the message that graph is trying to convey.
Assess how their social media feeds influence their views, and make a plan to adjust those feeds to improve their understanding of the world around them.

“We want students to develop their own personal strategies for evaluating all of the types of information they encounter,” Bradley said. “Knowing how to fact-check statements and claims is a valuable skill that will last them a lifetime.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: annarbor; antichristian; antisemitism; bullshit; detroit; fake; fakenews; indoctrination; liberalagenda; liberalmedia; realpropaganda; socialmedia; tds; trustedsources; uofm
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I'll be teaching a course this fall called "How to Spot a Fake University"
1 posted on 02/20/2017 7:23:35 AM PST by Eddie01
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ABCNNBCBSFOXNYTLATAJCWSJ.................................THERE IT IS! I SPOTTED IT!......................


2 posted on 02/20/2017 7:26:07 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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>>ABCNNBCBSFOXNYTLATAJCWSJ.................................THERE IT IS! I SPOTTED IT!......................<<

You should collect tuition!

Save the little buggers time and money.


3 posted on 02/20/2017 7:32:48 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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To: Eddie01

If this was an unbiased course with no hidden agenda it would be a good course to offer.

But what are the chances of that happening at a major, left leaning. establishment school?


4 posted on 02/20/2017 7:33:43 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler ("I really took notice when the animals began to pair up and stand in line." - NOAH)
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To: freedumb2003

Well, it IS worth a credit hour...


5 posted on 02/20/2017 7:33:53 AM PST by Eddie01
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Stanford University had a pair of researchers who studied the issue of fake news....finishing the report in late January.

So, they came to two conclusions. Only 15-percent of society were viewing sites which might be identified as fake news sites. That’s it....only 15-percent.

But they also came to realize as people read or watched the fake news sites...few were able to memorize or remember the fake news days or weeks later. They didn’t put down some pattern or number of days....but it made one think that at best...you might remember some fake news for twenty-four hours. Maybe a few big episodes might last longer. But most folks just couldn’t remember things long-term.

So you have to sit there and wonder....all this fake hype over fake news...is simply fake? It would be interesting to register a fake student in this fake U-M course, and have him pose questions to the professor...making the rest of the class wonder if the professor was fake or not.


6 posted on 02/20/2017 7:34:52 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Eddie01

Like they count on their fingers and toes.

Disgraceful university. But that’s what they’ve become.


7 posted on 02/20/2017 7:35:26 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Eddie01

Not a fake university, just a fake university course.


8 posted on 02/20/2017 7:36:17 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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But what are the chances of that happening at a major, left leaning. establishment school?

Zero.

Note: there is no mention of the main stream media in the course outline - only the unwashed ills of social media will be tackled.

9 posted on 02/20/2017 7:36:23 AM PST by Eddie01
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They can start with See-BS as their first case study.


10 posted on 02/20/2017 7:36:35 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Eddie01

The stated principles are spot-on. But that is only window-dressing.

Because, in spite of the caveat of assessing one’s own biases, there is simply no way to cancel out the interference created by the pervasive influence of the pro-marx, anti-Christian university-cultural worldview window. Hence, the general by-product of having taken the course will result in the exact same pro-marx, anti-Christian graduates. Why? Becuse people with that worldview are incapable of calling their worldview a bias at all.


11 posted on 02/20/2017 7:39:01 AM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
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“Learn how to find trusted sources of statistics.”

What a joke.

If you can’t do the math, you will forever be swayed by those abusing statistics to manipulate you.

You don’t “trust” someone else’s math and presumptions. You verify.

If you have to rely on trust, by definition, you neither understand statistics, nor how they are abused.


12 posted on 02/20/2017 7:50:22 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Eddie01

Another worthless university course for the unemployable generation.


13 posted on 02/20/2017 7:52:33 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Eddie01

14 posted on 02/20/2017 7:53:52 AM PST by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: Eddie01

OTOH, for a crib course I preferred Underwater Basket Weaving.


15 posted on 02/20/2017 7:54:14 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Eddie01

U of M, 1954 home to National Educational Television, predecessor to PBS. The beginning of socialist propaganda TV in America; aimed at children. Trust U of M as you would a rabid pit bull.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Educational_Television


16 posted on 02/20/2017 7:58:10 AM PST by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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To: Eddie01

Why some new, special class to spot fake news? When I was in school 35 years ago, one course we had to take was called “Language and Logic” which has served me well.


17 posted on 02/20/2017 8:01:53 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: polymuser

The Unibomber got a PhD there.


18 posted on 02/20/2017 8:12:57 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Eddie01

Fake news is not as much of a problem as bias reporting.

The five “W” once ruled journalism -

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
Kipling

What happened?
Who is involved?
Where did it take place?
When did it take place?
Why did that happen?

The bias was kept to the editorial page.

Today’s newspaper treat every page as if it was the editorial page. Front page, sport page, social page, even entertainment and cartoons.

No one killed newspapers, they committed suicide.


19 posted on 02/20/2017 8:30:54 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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I remember in the 1980’s Rush describing a journalism conference, where the great majority of journalists surveyed there were Democrat and willing to do advocacy in their work.

He also spoke then of America having lost its common morality.


20 posted on 02/20/2017 9:09:01 AM PST by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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