• Introduction:
  • Name and a little about me
  • Course: EDCI 572 with Dr. Verena Roberts D
    • Development and Implementation of the Curriculum in Digital Learning Contexts
  • Overview: Stories and Perspectives: How to Search for and Find Different Stories and Perspectives.
• Outline:
  • How can our digital bubble as educators filter the stories we hear and believe?
  • What kinds of digital tools expand filter bubbles in your learning context?
  • What types of filter bubbles are influencing your digital project?
  • What are you doing to ensure students are using a wide variety of digital resources?
  • Tech of the week

• How can our digital bubble as educators filter the stories we hear and believe?
  • Website algorithm
    • Sites, like Google and Facebook, note links you click on and then edit what you see based on those choices. This in turn creates a filter bubble that only shows you things you have proven interested in and pushes all other things out, including differing opinions (Pariser, 2011).
    • Eli Pariser suggests we find things that are not only relevant to us but also uncomfortable and challenging to help burst the filter bubble (2011).
  • Feedback loop – same information repeated, exaggerated, etc.
    • Rheingold suggest we find people whose intelligence and honesty we respect but disagree with on things (2020).
  • Search engines and other websites may endorse paying advertises over other options and information.
    • Avoid paid advertisements at top of search
    • Search passed the first page of results
  • Find out who is the author and then research their reliability and their sources (Rheingold, 2012).

• What kinds of digital tools expand filter bubbles in your learning context?
  • Demonstrate research and information literacy as outlined in the BC digital literacy framework (British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2016)
    • find, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and use information ethically from a variety of sources and media
  • Using multiple search engines
  • Fact checking websites: Snopes.com, factcheck.org, politifact.com, etc
  • Use Rheingold’s (2012) suggestion to “triangulate” sources and information.
    • Markhal Nolan demonstrates in his TED Talk, How to Separate Fact and Fiction Online, how he used human sources and the internet (using google maps) to find that a video that was posted online of bodies being dumped off a bridge in Hama was not accurate and took place in a different location, possibly at a different time (2012).

• What types of filter bubbles are influencing your digital project?
  • The apps and tech suggested by classmates
  • The readings provided my prof (one side of the story?)
  • My own biases and beliefs
  • Website algorithms
• What are you doing to ensure students are using a wide variety of digital resources?
  • Provide places to start their search:
    • Instructables website and Other woodworking related websites
    • Multiple search engines
    • Rheingold (2012) talks to Googles “search anthropologist” Dan Russell who suggests Wikipedia as a place to start your search.
  • Students need to provide multiple sources and cite them properly
  • Have students find counter narratives and compare and contrast

• Tech of the Week:
  • freesound.org
    • Collection of sound effects
    • Creative Commons

• Outro Music
  • Music by Canada by Picture of the Floating World

References:

British Columbia. Ministry of Education. (2016). BC’s digital literacy framework. Victoria, B.C.: Ministry of Education.

Nolan, M. (2012). Retrieved March 18, 2020, from https://www.ted.com/talks/markham_nolan_how_to_separate_fact_and_fiction_online

Pariser, E. (2011). Retrieved March 18, 2020, from https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles

Rheingold, H. (2012). Chapter 2 Crap Detection 101: How to Find What you Need to Know, and Decide if It’s True. In Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. (pp. 77-111). Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press.

Rheingold, H. (Producer). (2020). Interview about Chapter 2 Crap Detection 101 [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RkfP8XeIxKaRmBMmLzkevv3DMSH1zqyR

Audio:

Musical Intro/outro is Canada by Picture of the Floating World found at freemusicarchive.org

Doppler Horn sounds effect by Mullumbimby found at freesound.org