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.”
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You should collect tuition!
Save the little buggers time and money.
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?
Well, it IS worth a credit hour...
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.
Like they count on their fingers and toes.
Disgraceful university. But that’s what they’ve become.
Not a fake university, just a fake university course.
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.
They can start with See-BS as their first case study.
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.
“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.
Another worthless university course for the unemployable generation.
OTOH, for a crib course I preferred Underwater Basket Weaving.
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
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.
The Unibomber got a PhD there.
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.
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.
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