October 22 | 4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
OPEN TO STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY & TRI-CITIES COMMUNITY
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Digital Dissensus: Discovering Truth in an Era of Misinformation | Community Classroom Series
October 22, 2020 @ 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
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Are conspiracy theorists and anti-maskers anti-fact? Or is there a deeper dynamic at play? Mike Caulfield, director of blended and networked learning at WSU Vancouver and nationally recognized digital literacy expert will discuss the roots of our current “digital dissensus” and explain how our approach to education may be making the problem worse. How do we design education for a world where information is plentiful, and attention is the scarcity? How do we encourage analysis and engagement in our students without having those same impulses gamed by bad actors? What epistemic stances and heuristics serve the public in a world where expertise is niche and very little is directly verifiable, and where facts are atomized, separated from analysis, and reassembled in bizarre and dangerous ways?
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Mike Caulfield
Mike Caulfield is the director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University, Vancouver and a nationally recognized digital literacy expert. His areas of expertise include informal learning, online communities and open educational resources with special interest in civic literacy and digital citizenship.
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