41% of Millennials check Facebook daily, but are as equally connected through Instagram and Snapchat. YouTube is their favorite social network, but podcasts are trending up as an alternative to books, allowing them to learn about their interests and their world. Our webinar this week helped faculty learn easy ways to engage students in the course content by integrating technologies that they are using daily. We shared the 5 questions that UC Berkeley uses to guide faculty that want to use social media in their class. These questions help instructors plan and be thoughtful about issues that might come up. We also shared 5 classroom activities and the recommended technologies for each. Embedding Twitter feeds into Blackboard pages Sharing lists of appropriate podcasts through CastBox Creating an online bulletin board for students to share links with Padlet Example: EBT Debrief Assigning Video Diaries for students, and having them learn basic video editing through WeVideo...

Today's blog comes from Rene Tanner , subject matter librarian at ASU. Evaluating information in the digital age is a critical skill. In the classroom, as in life, we need to agree on basic facts to advance human knowledge and our understanding of the world. Fake news refers to sources that fabricate information, purposefully deceive, or grossly distort factual news reports (Novotny, 2017). Social media is an important source of information. A recent Pew Research Center study found that 62% of U.S. adults receive news through social media with Facebook (44%) as the lead outlet, followed by YouTube (10%) and Twitter (9%) (Pew Research Center, 2016a). Distinguishing real information from distorted information online can more difficult than we may imagine. A recent study by Stanford University found that most students, from middle school through college, had trouble identifying false or biased information online. For example, students often had difficulty distinguishing be...