This project, One Day on Earth, has endless possibilities for students, educators and lifelong learners -- to create, to share, to analyze and discuss.
You can help "document the world's story" through this project whose developers describe its goals as "Students learn the applicable practices of observation, investigation, notation, and documentation of a subject through the One Day On Earth experience. They also gain understanding of participatory media as a vehicle for social justice, community building, civic literacy and global awareness."
For more information on how to participate, toolkits, lesson plans,and FAQ's, check out the main page or this investigate this pdf.
How do we ensure that our students have the ability to search, sift and know?
“The ability to know has suddenly become the ability to search and the ability to sift” and discern. “Skill plus social” is the key.
How do we teach critical and focused attention when students are multitasking more than ever before? Farhad Manjoo argues in, True Enough, Living in a Post-Fact Society that our citizens increasingly accept as true anything which is said loudly enough, repeated often enough and circulated widely on the Internet.
Silicon Valley social media strategist JD Lasica offers suggestions for increasing online media literacy. We need to teach our students not only to use reliable news media, but also to fact check when they use blogs, Wikipedia, or alternative media publications. Check multiples sources and international coverage.
Crowd source your fact checking on Twitter and also use NewsTrust, a news literacy tool which harnesses a bipartisan community of news evaluators who make judgments to determine bias and unverified facts.
More vetting tools librarians need to use during the research process with our students:
• Campaign Desk (Columbia Journalism Review) critiques media coverage of politics and policy
• Factchecked.org provides educators and students with a framework for analyzing information and avoiding deception in the media.
• FactCheck.org, (Annenberg Public Policy Center) focuses on political bias in the news.
• Media Matters for America -a nonprofit progressive research and information monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the media.
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) is one of the longest-running media watch groups monitoring media bias and censorship.
• Metafilter and similar community sites offer robust discussions of current events.
• Twitter Journalism (“Where News and Tweets Converge”) published a series of steps to verify a tweet, including checking the history of past tweets to check context before retweeting a claim about a news event.
• Dispute Finder Firefox Extension (Intel labs) “highlights disputed claims on web pages you browse and shows you evidence for alternative points of view.”
• Questioning Video -understand the vocabulary of visual deception that can be used to distort TV news.
