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Crash Course Introduction

  •  English    10     Public
    Media Literacy
  •   Study   Slideshow
  • The ____________________ is also littered with misleading, sensationalized, and downright false information.
    Internet
  •  10
  • The Poynter Institude is a non-profit journalism school, and the goal of Mediawise is to teach students how to assess the __________ of information they encounter online
    accuracy
  •  20
  • ___________________ continue to be incredibly valuable resources, but these days anyone can hop online and produce information via their personal website, or their social media.
    Libraries
  •  25
  • The internet has changed how we ______________.
    communicate
  •  5
  • The quality of our __________ directly shapes the quality of our decisions and the quality of our decisions of course shape the quality of our shared experience as humans.
    information
  •  20
  • ________, information that's wrong on purpose, spreads quickly online as do hate speech and propaganda
    disinformation
  •  15
  • Adults and young people alike still typically evaluate information based on factors unrelated to its _________.
    content
  •  5
  • Statistics and _______ are often easy and effective ways to communicate facts and evidence, but that doesn't mean all charts are trustworthy
    infographics
  •  10
  • ___________ content means that a company paid the publication for a space on its site, hoping to advertise with a post that looks like a news article.
    Sponsered
  •  20
  • The ________ did well, because they employed a variety of carefully honed skills to decipher fact from fiction.
    Fact Checkers
  •  25