Combating Fake News in the Digital Age
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Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, in preparation for discussing the importance of critical thinking skills,
Read the articles
Common Misconceptions of Critical Thinking
Combating Fake News in the Digital Age
6 Critical Thinking Skills You Need to Master Now (Links to an external site.)
Teaching and Learning in a Post-Truth world: It’s Time for Schools to Upgrade and Reinvest in Media Literacy Lessons
Critical Thinking and the Challenges of Internet (Links to an external site.)
Watch the videos
Fake News: Part 1 (Links to an external site.)
Critical Thinking (Links to an external site.)
Review the resources
Critical Thinking Skills (Links to an external site.)
Valuable Intellectual Traits (Links to an external site.)
Critical Thinking Web (Links to an external site.)
Reflect: Reflect on the characteristics of a critical thinker. Critical thinking gets you involved in a dialogue with the ideas you read from others in this class. To be a critical thinker, you need to be able to summarize, analyze, hypothesize, and evaluate new information that you encounter.
Write: For this discussion, you will address the following prompts. Keep in mind that the article or video you’ve chosen should not be about critical thinking, but should be about someone making a statement, claim, or argument related to your Final Paper topic. One source should demonstrate good critical thinking skills and the other source should demonstrate the lack or absence of critical thinking skills. Personal examples should not be used.
Explain at least five elements of critical thinking that you found in the reading material.
Search the Internet, media, or the Ashford University Library, and find an example in which good critical thinking skills are being demonstrated by the author or speaker. Summarize the content and explain why you think it demonstrates good critical thinking skills.
Search the Internet, media, or the Ashford University Library, and find an example in which the author or speaker lacks good critical thinking skills. Summarize the content and explain why you think it demonstrates the absence of good, critical thinking skills.
Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length, which should include a thorough response to each prompt. You are required to provide in-text citations of applicable required reading materials and/or any other outside sources you use to support your claims. Provide full reference entries of all sources cited at the end of your response. Please use correct APA format when writing in-text citations (see In-Text Citation Helper (Links to an external site.)) and references (see Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.)).
resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.
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Combating Fake News
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Hobbs, in his works "Teaching and Learning in a Post-Truth World," successfully identifies the problem, which is Fake News, by telling the story of the Pope endorsing Donald triumph. He reflects on factors such as 'attention economy' and the difficulty in identifying the source of fake news as those derailing the war. Hobbs seeks to find out how students can learn to tell the difference between a fake and real story, and the contributions of their teachers. He believes civic education on propaganda will go a long way. Hobbs is an excellent critical thinker because he gives a clear picture of fake news in America and creates a path to an amicable solution.
Hobbs has done background research on the topic at hand, citing an online experiment done by Kahne & Bowyer (2017), that showed that civic education could improve students understanding of fake news. Hobbs is very objective in critically analyzing different comments of two students on the pilgrim's meme without showing bias. He infers that for students to be able to tell real from fake news, educators need to influence civic education creatively. Hobbs 2017. Hobbs's sense of curiosity makes him a great creative thinker. He asks open-ended questions that help come up with ...
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