Can Our Students get Hooked by Pfishing?
TweetDo our students know these pfishing tricks? There is so much more to digital citizenship than just how we treat…
Category: critical thinking
Bogus or Bonafide? How to Make Lies Look Legit:
Tweet We’ve all seen these. The viral Facebook posts about privacy. And (hopefully) we all know that they are hoaxes….
11 Tools to Verify that Online Info
TweetThis afternoon I had the pleasure of presenting at the Catholic Press Association National Conference here in St. Louis. Great…
Four Ways Video Editing Can Affect Us (“The Shining” as a romantic comedy?)
TweetWhen we analyze production values in class, we talk about the obvious ones: music, lighting, use of color, etc. But…
Bonafide or Bogus? Investigating a Photo Fake
TweetWith all the stuff flying around social media, it’s important to activate our internal bullshit detectors. My friend John sent…
Can I De-Bunk This Photo in Under 3 Minutes?
TweetWith so much information flying around social media, we need critical thinking. Or, as I call it,”internal bullshit detectors”. This…
How Can Media Literacy Save our Democracy?
TweetCan media literacy save our democracy? You bet. Democracy depends on a well-informed electorate. And the more time I spend…
How to Critically Evaluate “News” on Social Media
TweetIs social media a valid source of information? It can be. But for us to sift through and evaluate the tremendous…