PD Agenda Oct. 2017

Objectives

1. To learn to recognize cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias and provide tools to teachers to help students develop strategies to recognize and overcome them.
2. To persuade teachers to teach media literacy regularly in their classes.

Time: 35 minutes (two sessions)

Rationale

We live in interesting times. Following and interpreting the news is a 21st-century survival skill.

Media literacy can be easily tied to the curriculum and is aligned to multiple sets of teaching standards. See Standards page of Fake News Detection Services for comprehensive list of standards.

Ground Rules for Our Discussion

1. Think before you speak.
2. Listen carefully to what others have to say.
3. Do not interrupt when someone else is speaking.
4. Make use of what others have to say when it is your turn to speak.
5. Only say what you truly believe.
6. Do not remain silent. Make sure to contribute to the discussion.
7. Let other people speak. Do not hog the discussion. Once you are done speaking, let at least two other people talk before you speak again.
8. Support good ideas that other people have, even if they are different from your own.
9. Search for the best solution even if it is different from the way that you thought at first.

Program

Brief introduction: Melinda Buterbaugh (Objectives of PD, ground rules)

1. Richard Mandl: The Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe_clean

2. Lauren Gordon-Ruderman:

• Rate your own bias with the All Sides quiz.
• Are you in an information bubble? Take the Media Use Survey.
• Check out the media bias ratings on AllSides.com.
• (On your own: Read reviews of AllSides at Forbes.com and School Library Journal.)
• Visual: See "Ideological Placement of Each Source's Audience" (Pew Research Center) below.

3. Lourdes Ramos Quevedo:

• Media Literacy Website Evaluation activity. Choose one of the instructional sites and evaluate it.
• Media Literacy instruction and NGSS.
• CLAIM- EVIDENCE- REASONING and a sample template
• Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!! (literature)
• Climate change ---- Vaccines ---- Evolution ---- Darwinism ---- Flat-Earth ----Moon Landing ----etc.
  • Teach with the data.

"You are entitled to your own opinion.

But you are NOT entitled to your own FACTS."- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

• Climate Change-
  • A look at the data from the National Climate Assessment website
  • Students can analyze the charts and graphs depicted in the Google Slides
  • Students can be encouraged to develop questions for further investigations.
  • Students can work in groups to dissect the sections found in the National Climate Assessment report.
    • Sample Collaborative Presentation from previous year

4. Melinda Buterbaugh: Walk participants through the Fake News website resources.

5. Questions/Comments/Discussion

6. Indicate if you would be interested in a follow-up PD: Jan. 9 where we could share our experiences/best practices with media literacy instruction.