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Interview with Ms. Maria Fe (Head of Binus School Simprug Library)
Q: Can you share with us what you have been busy doing in the last 6 months?
A: Last month, Ms. Maria Fe was invited to a talk in Spain about the modern world and was told to enter the registration and soon after a new email with a sketchy website and she asked her friends in Europe about this talk and she then fact-checked the website and validating the email and website.
Q: How can you best define misinformation?
A: Ms.Maria Fe said in fake news/misinformation there are 2 types known as Disinformation and Misinformation and the definition of disinformation is spreading false information on purpose with the intent of gaining clout and attention and sometimes fame.
Q: How does you/your team tackle misinformation?
A: Ms.Maria Fe repeated something she said which is to evaluate and talked about misinformation spreading to friends and family and then she said an example where publishers advertise their book or product saying things like its the best for its category and some believe it and some verify and rate the book based on its real content and viable resource for the library.
Q: Why do you think misinformation is harmful?
A: Ms. Maria Fe would say that misinformation is toxic and can affect mental health, especially in the pandemic about viruses or anti-mask and a basic example was made which said "At 11 o'clock a visitor will come so you make time for it on your schedule and the visitor comes late.
Q: Why do you think countering misinformation is important now?
A: She said that everything is fabricated and that you need to check whether it's reliable and best for teachers or just fabricated.
Q: Have you or your friend experienced misinformation and how?
A: A few days ago Ms.Maria Fe's friend got an email saying that a meeting will be on Saturday at Central Park Mall so she texted the organizer and the organizer said "It was on Sunday" and told us how much time her friend wasted and ruining a good schedule then Pratham and Tristan shared their stories about misinformation and how their time was wasted as well.
Q: What were the signs/clues that the information is fake.
A: Misinformation affects productivity, trust, and relationship with the person that told you that misinformation, and it either could have been disinformation or misinformation, she then said an example saying "This is a piece of paper but if someone deceits you it gets crumpled, and when the person says sorry it gets uncrumpled but full of folds and crumples damaging the relationship."
Q: How does misinformation affect your business/organization?
A: First if we look at a website does it say .org then its probably reliable but if its .azw then it may be a scam website, the other one is if you are reading or looking at an interesting topic like the war of Ukraine and you can verify this with news channels, articles, and print media, etc.
Q: What are some helpful tips to stop misinformation?
A: Helpful tips are always validated and always check the reliability of the author of a book or article etc. and to see the author's job if the book is about medical science check if the author is a doctor to know you're seeing the good info and a thing from Answer 8 was to check the URL.
Interview with Sessa Rapunzel (TikToker)
Q: As a TikToker, what do you think is your responsibility in spreading information on your platform?
A: To convey all accurate things, pre-filter the information from the products or services that I review, and choose good and correct words/sentences even with a relaxed trigger.
Q: How do you ensure the accuracy of the information you share with your audience?
A: By looking for more detailed information that is conveyed.
Q: Liked you being reprimanded by the obligatory party or from TikTok for spreading misinformation on TikTok? If so, how did you handle it?
A: Never
Q: In your opinion, what are the most common types of misinformation spread on social media platforms like TikTok?
A: Such as hoax news that displays videos with inaccurate/accurate descriptions, also exaggerations make viewers have pros and cons.
Q: Do you think TikTok should have stricter policies on misinformation? Why or why not?
A: Yes, you have to, because there are more and more social media users from all walks of life and not all users understand the inaccurate news, they usually don't find out the truth anymore.
Q: In your opinion, how can misinformation affect society at large, and why is it important to combat this misinformation?
A: Affect people's point of view because they can be exposed to hoax news which has a negative impact, it is important to combat it so that people are also wiser in using social media.
Q: Have you come across information that you think is suspicious or unreliable but decided to share it anyway? If so, why?
A: Never, I always look for information first from all angles, also look for accurate information and then dare to spread it.
Q: How do you think TikTok can better educate you about the importance of fact-checking and verifying information before sharing it?
A: TikTok has often made educational content about factual information and hoaxes, but maybe it can make educational content like that more often and can be posted on all social media.
Q: What steps do you take to fact-check information before sharing it on your TikTok account?
A: Look for information via Google, or even from other TikTok videos, because even TikTok videos can be said to be more updated than television news.
Q: Do you think there is a difference between intentionally spreading misinformation and doing it unknowingly? Why or why not?
A: There is a difference, if you are conscious it is an action that is not right, if it is not intentional it should not be like that again that's where you need to look from several points of view so you can get accurate information.
Interview with Ms. Rosa
Q: Can you share what you have been busy with the past 6 months?
A: China border they opened up their borders quite late to some parts of the world so just before Chinese New Year they started to open up so somewhere in January, so I have not been going to Singapore, I am from Singapore for 3 years, so when I got the opportunity to took back home to visit my family and family members.
Q: How can you best describe misinformation?
A: Ok so for misinformation, I think you need to check if someone is selling you something, you need to check if the information given to you is correct because sometimes people might be spreading false information, rumors, they might just want to do a prank, or you know now about COVID-19 around the world we all have out vaccine right?, To protect ourselves but some people they might spread rumors about the vaccine, like if you take the COVID vaccine you get sick in the end, you know something might happen to you then this may spread to other people and they will not take the vaccine which is to protect themselves but when they listen to these people they decide not to take it at all.
Q: How widespread is misinformation in education today? And how does it impact students learning?
A: It definitely impacts a lot, let's say a student say all this misinformation about something he heard it from a third-party or fourth-party they do not know whether this is true so they decided to follow this information and this definitely impacts them and they spread it to all their friends, so in the end so it doesn't benefit anybody at all so what the student has to do is to check whether this info is correct so you need to check all the sources you get it from and then you know if it's correct or not.
Q: Have you ever encountered any specific challenges when teaching about misinformation, and how did you overcome them?
A: My student they have not tell me all these news yet but I do encounter misinformation, there was this one information that was told to me by a student in the older grades so he start to go around and tell his friends about it so we use the internet for our resources and we use several platforms to get our information so we need to check if it's correct then we will discuss how it will affect us in school.
Q: What are some common sources of channels in which is misinformation is spread from students, how can educators identify and manage the misinformation in the classroom?
A: Ok so nowadays it's based on the platform you use, you guys use Facebook, Instagram, you guys are using Twitter, so these are where misinformation comes from as well from the internet, we have to do a lot of reading because sometimes you just read the title only and your just like "Oh that's what happen" instead read the entire thing whether it's correct.
Q: In the age of social media, how can educators help students navigate and evaluate the things online, are there any specific strategies or tools you reccomend?
A: That I would say is that very important to pay attention to where the news is coming from so you need to check your sources, Then the other thing is if you get it from social media you need to get the original sources where the news may come from, and it's not just one particular place you check, you have to check multiple platforms to verify, then let's say if your reading a news article you must read and find what is the source of where the news article found the info from. As a educator if my students come and tell me something I will read it first and then I will take a pause and think about it if it's true and worth it for sharing so if it's correct I'll share because it will affect people.
Q: How can educators collaborate with parents to prevent misinformation inside the classroom and promote responsible information consumption?
A: So the parents usually right now we also have PYPX at the school I am teaching at, so we inform the parents what we are doing on a weekly basis which is the topic the students are working on and tell them what the students are doing and what they need to do, and the parents will send images of what source the students got information from and check the information.
Q: In your experience, what are the most effective strategies or approaches to educate students about misinformation and develop their critical thinking skills?
A: For me I would say, we usually do a brainstorm in my class we come up with a topic, so we would do a brainstorm about that topic and we get some information from the other students about what they would like to know and what they already know, we gather all this information and put them into small groups once they are already in small groups they were assigned what they were taking on in the topic, and the leader will come to me and tell me all the ideas and information in the group.
Q: What steps can educators take to provide accurate and reliable information to students?
A.: As an educator we have to check the platform that they do the research on, as an educator also we have to do a lot of reading to make sure the information the student is using is correct and where they get the information from they get is not a fake one, because nowadays there are these fake sources that spread misinformation of particular things.
Q: Can you share any success stories or examples where your efforts to prevent misinformation have positively improved students critical thinking.
A.: Yes there was this particular event we had at school that the kids have to brainstorm about information and we had to do online what we wanted to do it came back and the kids decided to do a topic about the weather, so they found out all the information and made a mini gallery about all the info they gathered to showcase to the other students in other levels and to invite the parents.
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