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Teach Talk Webinar: Building Digital Media Skills in the Classroom

Do you know what sources your students are using to get their information? Do you feel you're on the same page with students about factual information, whether for current world issues or simply the information shared in class?  Can you determine what is real or what is fake? Will your students be able to? This week's webinar focused on building digital media skills with your students.  Presented by Kristy Roschke , Ph.D, Managing Director of the news Co/Lab at the Cronkite School, and hosted by Joshua Caulkins , Assistant Director of Undergraduate Programs in the School of Life Sciences, this presentation is timely to our current situation, with misinformation being shared every second.  Digital Media Landscape & Media Literacy At the start of her presentation, Roschke explained that with an increase in consumers of news and the opportunity to create media, we are headed further down the path for misinformation. Yet, when everything looks the same we relax into ...