Analyzing Inauthentic Contributions & Fake News.

For this assignment, you will use your web browsers to analyze the problem of “fake news.” Before you begin this assignment, please review the course reading and video on fake news and deepfakes respectively.

Assignment Guidelines:
Identify inauthentic contributions in one or more of your news feeds, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or other online news media resource you may use.
Analyze the author’s authenticity and sources, if any, making particular note of how their contributions may be harmful on a particular (targeted) group of people.
Opine on the author’s intent and give recommendations for responding ethically to the social media post
Reading:
Moore, M. (1997). Theory of transactional distance. Keegan, D., ed. Theoretical Principles of Distance Education”, Routledge, 22-38. http://www.c3l.uni-oldenburg.de/cde/found/moore93.pdf
– Note: As influencers we are educators, and this research gives vital insight into learning and communicating online.
Smith, M. K. (2001). Peter Senge and the learning organization. The encyclopedia of informal education. http://infed.org/mobi/peter-senge-and-the-learning-organization/#_Leading_the_learning
Note: In thinking about authenticity, many approach learning as a way to shrink the knowledge gap. To become knowers is the quest of learning. However, here Peter Senge suggests we become learners and not knowers. The approach therefore is to expand the knowledge gap. In other words expand the space of the unknown—create an intentional space for breakthrough learning—a place between what is known (benchmarking) and what is yet to be known (innovative practices). Breakthrough learning results from the willingness to plunge into the creative chaos of unexplored territory.
DiResta, R. (2019). The return of fake news—and lessons from spam. Wired Magazine. https://www.wired.com/story/the-return-of-fake-news/
Viewing:
Video: Peter Senge – Navigating Webs of Interdependence (5:17) (Review)
Video: The Power of Vulnerability (20:19)
Video: Deepfake Videos Are Getting Real and That’s a Problem (9:59)
Video: Joseph Pine’s TED Talk (14:06)