I had some Word documents students had produced that needed to go up on Digipo. I could have directly copy and pasted them, but they were in a slightly different document template. So I pasted and then pasted the separate pieces into the right places. I sped up the video below slightly, but in reality… Continue reading

When I was at Keene State College, we had a student life group that was heavily into environmentalism, and lots of extra-curricular activities and student learning were structured around making the local environment better. As an example, we’d have a clean up day each year where the students would pick a target — a local… Continue reading

When I say you can fact check a lot of things in one to two minutes, I mean, literally, one to two minutes. Here’s an example:   You can sit around and think critically about whether this is possible all day, of course. But the easiest way to debunk this is to discover that the… Continue reading

For many years, the underlying thesis of the tech world has been that there is too much information and therefore we need technology to surface the best information. In the mid 2000s, that technology was pitched as Web 2.0. Nowadays, the solution is supposedly AI. I’m increasingly convinced, however, that our problem is not information… Continue reading

The idea of the fact-checking activity in the Digital Polarization Initiative is simple: civic education as public work. The education piece is simple: students learn how to tell truth from fiction on the web through checking our claims and investigating questions. We have a short textbook on that that they can read in a week.… Continue reading

As you may know, one of the great innovations of the 2016 election season was the use of fake “local” papers like the Denver Guardian to spread fake news: The Denver Guardian, as we all now know, was a completely fake site that only published this single page. The page was shared on Facebook over… Continue reading