List of bad things Conservatives say about Trump.
Bad Things Conservatives Say About Trump
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The Social Dilemma Transcript – Main Arguments
Using The Social Dilemma Transcript this lesson tries to understand the influences Social Media has on the community and what should we do about it. Updated March 27, 2023
History of Health Misinformation
This lesson on the History of Health Misinformation provides evidence that Health Misinformation has been with us from our beginning.
Evidence of Trump’s Christian Support
This lesson provides Evidence of Trump’s Christian Support. It’s a facegroup that makes it clear that it supports Trump, almost like Jesus himself.
5 Media Literacy Questions
This lesson details the 5 Media Literacy Questions we need to ask every time we consume information to ensure the most learn from it. Updated April 2023
Use Media Literacy to Understand a Fox News Story about Obama
This lesson on Using Media Literacy to Understand a Fox News Story about the Obama’s will help us better perceive information from Fox News.
Facebook Didn’t Seem To Care I Was Being Sexually Harassed Until I Decided To Write About It | HuffPost
While his genius may be largely uncontested, Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of Facebook is badly adrift from reality. He paints the social media behemoth he founded in 2004 as a tool “to bring the world closer together,” but in many ways, it has become an indispensable...
Abbreviated pundit roundup: Trump’s history of lying, Conway’s defensiveness and more
On the topic of Kellyanne Conway’s reaction to CNN’s question about her husband’s anti-Trump tweets, Michael Tomasky calls her a “conservative snowflake”: [C]ome on. It was a totally reasonable and legitimate question, as Bash told my colleague Matt Wilstein Monday ....
Conservative’s Defense of Amy Coney Barrett’s Religion
Conservative's Defense of Amy Coney Barrett's Religion The post below provides evidence of selective perception. Specifically, the evidence of Selective Perception is the Conservative's defense of Amy Coney Barrett's religion. GOP Defends Amy Coney Barrett’s...
Fake News and the First Amendment
We Already Have a Solution to Fake News: It’s Called the First Amendment Oct 9, 2017 13 min read Fake news isn’t suddenly ruining America, but putting government in charge of deciding what news is fake will. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016...
Heritage Foundation Take on Fake News
We Already Have a Solution to Fake News: It’s Called the First Amendment< Oct 9, 2017 13 min read Mr. Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal, the multi-media news outlet of The Heritage Foundation. Mr. Stepman wrote In the wake of President Donald Trump’s...
Mediated Democracy – The Future of Political Agency
Mediated Democracy - The Future of Political Agency The notion of ‘political agency’ draws attention at the (media) practices through which social actors re- produce, reorganise and challenge politics. At the same time, it poses questions about the structures, econom-...
How you can protect yourself from misinformation
Protect yourself from misinformation? Throughout history, many smart people have fallen for misinformation. It is often hard to protect yourself from misinformation. As a result, few actually try. However, while it is often hard to protect yourself from...
Review: Stanford Media Literacy Study
Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake. So a Review of the Stanford Media Literacy Study Finds Teens absorb social media news without considering the source; parents can teach research skills and skepticism Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting...
4 Simple Media Literacy Rules
4 Simple Media Literacy Rules I just heard the news: "The top 20 fake stories received more “shares, reactions, and comments” than the 20 top real news stories in the final months of the presidential campaign." It seems fake news is more appealing and, apparently,...
Media Literacy Challenges
Media Literacy Challenges Did media literacy backfire? Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of propaganda and fake news during this year’s election cycle, many progressives are calling for an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Others are...
How To Improve Media Literacy
Updated March 1, 2023 This Lesson is focused on finding the best ways to promote and support media literacy in the community. Our focus is on helping everyone, young and old, to develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st...
How to Translate Conservative Speak
In order to process all the information available, we need to know how to translate conservative speak. In this case we can use GOP Rep Steve King. Steve was on CNN yesterday to explain to us all that Vladimir Putin is no real danger to free speech because, hey, Garry...
Trump Twitter Taxonomy: How Trump is using Twitter to manipulate the country
President Trump on Twitter behavior: ‘I’m a very stable genius’ When asked during a NATO press conference if President Trump will tweet differently once departing on Air Force One, the president said he will not because he is a "stable genius." President Donald...
Talking to Conservatives
This is how we process information today. Dan Adams+1 Obama, the Democrats and Trump Derangement Syndrome Liberals are completely f***ed up in the head. Frank Roberts Brad, Clearly you miss the point of Fascism. Jews can be just as Fascistic as non-Jews. Trump...
My Definition of Fake News
On Sunday Dec. 4, 2016, Edgar Welch, 28, fired a real gun inside a real Washington, D.C., pizzeria filled with real people. When The New York Times asked Welch what he thought when he realized there were no child slaves inside the restaurant, as one fake news story...
Applying Alan Turing’s Universal Computing Machine to Media Literacy
I think it is possible to create a "Universal Media Literacy Machine" in the same way Alan Turing created a "Universal Computing Machine." Alan Turning, the fundamentally complicated and brilliant mathematician, suggested, in his groundbreaking 1936 paper, that a...
Applying Alan Turing's Universal Computing Machine to Media Literacy
I think it is possible to create a "Universal Media Literacy Machine" in the same way Alan Turing created a "Universal Computing Machine." Alan Turning, the fundamentally complicated and brilliant mathematician, suggested, in his groundbreaking 1936 paper, that a...
Media literacy Is Critical For Reasoned Discussion
Without Media Literacy Our Future is Bleak. And without Media Literacy we cannot have any chance for reasoned discussion. “At present, we worry that democracy is threatened by the ease at which disinformation about civic issues is allowed to spread and flourish. … If...
Why the Confederate flag started trending after the Charleston shooting – BBC News
Why the Confederate flag started trending after the Charleston shooting It was reported later that suspect Dylann Roof drove a car with Confederate flag licence plates. In the wake of the mass shooting in South Carolina, the image of the Confederate flag started...
5 Ways Technology Can and Should Be used to Improve Education
Here are 5 ways Technology Can and Should be used to improve education. Technology has always been a powerful tool in learning. The earliest learning technology, writing, transformed learning from just the memorization of stories told by a few near-by elders, to the...
Victor Hugo – An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted
The star possesses no anger; the dawn bears no malice. Light issatisfied in being light. Light is everything; the human race has no other love. France knows herself beloved because she is good, and...