With the recent phenomena of the Kony 2012 campaign, students at Lakie have been asked to consider how information travels, with the touch of a button, thousands can be reached with all kinds of messages, sometimes slick and professionally done (Kony 2012), othertimes raw and unedited (footage of protests from Syria). Should we believe everything that moves through social media (twitter and facebook)? Do we need to dig deeper? Consider different perspectives?
Students should be considering the criteria of evaluation -- the C.R.A.P. test
Currency
Reliability
Autenticity
Purpose
The Guardian recently created a great piece to demonstrate the speed at which information travels (true or not ) - put on your thinking caps.
Have a look.
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