Curation & Mash-Up Assignment

Digital Citizen: Is Seeing Believing?

Have you heard someone ever say, “That’s fake news!”

Have you ever seen something that you knew was fake news? Vote down below.

What is Fake News?

Fake news is false or misleading information presented as news. It often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or organization, or making money through advertising revenue.

Some media is fun and harmless but other media can be dangerous or addictive!

Take a moment to reflect on the following….

 Consider where the facts of the story come from: Does the story include attributions or citations to other reliable sources of information? Are there links that lead to sources that aren’t produced by the same organization or other questionable outlets? Is there enough information provided about sources that you could potentially look them up yourself, or are they left vague?

There are a few ways we can be smart fact checkers.

First, let us identify the parts and structure of an online news article. Also, let’s learn about things to watch out for when reading online news pages, such as sponsored content and advertisements. 

Watch this short video on how to spot fake news:

Now that you have learned how to check a website’s credibility let’s look at fake news pictures…

Often, pictures and videos are altered or photoshopped.  

Alter means to change the way something looks, sometimes using a computer or other digital tools. Below you see an image of what a birth and a tiger mutated would look like, we know this cannot happen in real life.

You should always ask yourself why the creators choose to edit or photoshop their work. Is it to sell a product? Is it to make someone look inhumanly flawless? Are they photoshopping a picture to preserve the memory?

Now that we know what fake news is and how people share it with a click of a button. Let’s discuss the topic of accuracy and credibility.

Let’s take a look at this article that shows us how to identify and analyze credible sources!

https://www.scribbr.com/citing-sources/credible-sources/

Credibility (noun). The quality of being trusted and believed in.

You can also take a look a this article that talks about the impacts that fake news can have on individuals and society as a whole.

https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2020/10/01/truth-about-fake-news

One way to know it is a credible source is to look for the cited work.

But, Ms. Munoz what is cited work….

Information that is cited allows others to find the author, book, or quote mentioned to know it is not fake information. One step further, you can look up that author and decided if they are credible. 

Sometimes, this can take a lot of time. However, knowing the truth is well worth the extra steps.

Work cited is used for credibility, but it’s important (not to mention courteous) to cite all your sources. Give credit when credit is due. Not giving credit to the original creator is called plagiarism.

Plagiarism is when a writer uses someone else’s words as his own. Plagiarism is considered cheating or stealing and it can result in serious consequences.

Imagine you entered an artwork competition at school, and your drawing won first place! Your artwork was hung up at school for everyone to see, but someone else’s name was on the art instead of yours. How would that make you feel?

A lot of times when you do school projects, you look online to find information about things you’re learning about. You might find images, articles, or videos that you want to use in your project. It’s totally fine to do that, but we just have to remember to give credit to the person who created what you use.

How would you feel if your art was taken and used by someone else? Turn to your right elbow partner and share.

So, how do you give credit aka cite your work?

At the end of your assignments, include the authors name, the title of the book/article and the website you visited. Here is an example. Insert proper information between brackets.

[Authors full name], [Title of book/article], [Website name]

I have included a checklist. Feel free to print or save as a PDF for future reference here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10g52GDPuxCX4V150-KPip3y5HGVj7-IA/preview?

Here is an example of a correct work cited !

Take away and home reflection…

Ask your parents what was the most recent thing they saw regarding fake news and where did they see it?

Works Cited:

https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2020/10/01/truth-about-fake-news

https://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-format/how-to-format-a-mla-works-cited-list/

https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2020/10/02/7-ways-to-spot-real-facts-from-fake-news

https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/subject-support/category/fake-news/

https://www.scribbr.com/citing-sources/credible-sources/

https://tusco.tv/news/extremely-rare-bird-visits-tuscarawas-county

https://youtu.be/AkwWcHekMdo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSKGa_7XJkg&t=6s

Screencasting Assignment

DC Product Option Assignment

This is my first Dc project for High School Juniors/Seniors.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CT3oPVpl13_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CT3rJZnLpbm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CT3pbYALKAv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Digital Citizenship Narrative

I had the opportunity of working on three Digital Citizenship projects and select an age groupe I would like to focus on, I chose High School. In the first assignment I had to explore Common Sense Education’s Digital Citizenship Curriculum with respect to each of the following focus topic choices: Cyberbullying, Digital Drama, and Hate Speech, Digital Footprint & Identity, Media Balance and Well-being, Privacy & Security, Relationships & Curriculum. We were given the choice of showing our work and understanding through three methods, the first was a podcast, the second was a vlog or blog post, and the third option was creating three instagram posts. I selected to focus on Media Balance and Well-Being and I did this through the construction of three instagram posts. For the second project I had to create a screencast that would focus on a different topic, this time I chose Cyberbullying, Digital Drama, and Hate Speech. For this project I created a slideshow presentation in which I not only shared the definitions and the results of these terms but I also provided students with resources to expand their understanding and the severe damage that cyberbullying, digital drama, and hate speech can have on an individual and on a society as a whole. The third and final project was the Mash-up and Curation project in which I work with my partner Liliana. In this project Liliana and I took a former student’s project and we remixed it, this means we took the former student’s work and we made it our own by keeping her template but adding our information and making it appropriate for our age group which are high schoolers. 

I think that some of the biggest challenges that I had to face while working on the projects was figuring out how to upload the projects to my wordpress website and making them accessible to viewers. Some skills that I take from these projects are the use of screen casting on Zoom and learning how to work with youtube and how to share videos and making them only accessible to those I wish to share it with. One of the concepts I has a lot of fun figuring out was how to export and import pages on wordpress for the mashup and curation project that I worked with in partnership with Liliana. I was given the opportunity to collaborate in these projects by providing feedback and constructive criticism so my peers about their project and I was able to receive feedback on my projects as well. I take very serious my role in group work as I never want to let my partners down, in our Mash-up and Curation project Liliana and I gave each other deadlines for when we wanted to have certain parts of our project done. I also natuarlly take leadership roles and when confusion arised I asked our professor for support. While working on these projects it helped me reenforce my trust in my peers as well as a greater understanding for deadlines as we are living in a difficult point in time. 

For our projects we were given instruction to review and incorporate the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines (UDL). The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. For my first Digital citizenship project in which I created the three instagram posts I focussed a lot on representation, action and expression, within those categories I focussed one the subcategories of perception, comprehension, and physical action. For my screencasting project I reflected on what was missing in my first project and I took the oportuniyty to incorporate more ULD guidelines. For the screencasting I wanted to ensure that more people would be able to benefit from my post: This time I targetted all three aspects, engagement making the topic relevant and the lesson fun but still keeping the seruouslness of the topic at hand, representation by providing imagedand definitions, and action and expression by giving the students coursed to navigate and complete. For my collaborative project of the Mash-up and Curation with Liliana we targetted the same aspects as I did in project two.

These projects helped me lean a lot about myself. I learned how to be patient with myself, it also taught me how to look and learn about other’s needs in order to make things accessible to them and hep facilitate their learning. This leads me to what I will keep with me and how it will help me in the future, I strongly believe that these project, specifically the Mash-up and Curation project have expanded my patience on not only myself but with tricky situations. I also learned that website building takes a lot of time and effort, this will help me in the future to plan and manage my time when it comes to project that requiere the attention to detail that a wordpress website requires. I hope to be able to continue to learn about how I can help others and how I can esure I am being inclusive of my audience and target groups.