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Developing Digital Detectives Turns Two
I can't believe it's been two years since Developing Digital Detectives was published. So much has happened since then, but the strategies, perspectives, and stories are more relevant than ever for two reasons: 1) the media and information landscape has accelerated with motivated reasoning, political rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and our reliance on social media for news, and 2) artificial intelligence will only make it more challenging if we don't educate our students and educators to be digital detectives.
Here is the description of Developing Digital Detectives in case you missed it:
From the bestselling Fact vs. Fiction authors, this book offers easy-to-implement lessons to engage students in becoming media literacy “digital detectives,” looking for clues, questioning motives, uncovering patterns, developing theories, and, ultimately, delivering a verdict.
The current news landscape is driven by clicks, with every social media influencer, trained and citizen journalists chasing the same goal: a viral story. In this environment, where the race to be first on the scene with the most sensational story often overshadows the need for accuracy, traditional strategies for determining information credibility are no longer enough. Rather than simply helping students become savvy information consumers, today’s educators must provide learners with the skills to be digital detectives – information interrogators who are armed with a variety of tools for dissecting news stories and determining what’s real and what isn’t in our “post-truth world.”







