Suzanne Milton
Resources
Teaching & Evaluating Videos is a Stanford Civic Online Reasoning website for instructors to gauge students' video evaluation skills and help improve those skills. Be compelled to engage your students when you read this excerpt from their website.
52% of a national sample of 3,446 students said this Facebook video claiming to show ballot stuffing in the 2016 Democratic primaries was “strong evidence” of voter fraud in the U.S. The video came from Russia.
More than 3,000 students completed the task. Only three of them actually tracked down the source of the video. One student from suburban California skillfully engaged in lateral reading—leaving the video to look for information on the broader web. Read about the results of our research.
To help more students become skilled consumers of digital content, we first need to understand the mistakes they’re making. For many students, seeing is believing. Source: https://cor.stanford.edu/blog/teaching-evaluating-videos/