Pam McKinney blogging from day 3 of the ECIL conference. [Due to wifi issues at the conference we will post some liveblogs retrospectively!] Kristy Paulova from Czech university of Life Sciences Led this presentation.Some people still believe that the moon landings are fake, and that there are aliens living on the dark side of the moon. But the people in the audience did not believe these conspiracy theories.
We live in a world of fake news, and we will all know people who believe it. 10% of the Czech population regularly consume conspiracy web sites, and 10% support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Chain emails are used to spread misinformation. Czech libraries have a range of media literacy training opportunities, and the university of life sciences is ready to help develop them further.
The main target groups are seniors and high school students. The courses should be completely free, easy to use and partially in English. MOOCs were created, as well as resources for teachers and librarians. 6 video-based courses for seniors were created, focusing on the history of mass media, critical thinking, manipulation in the media, and fake news. People would watch the video and then answer questions on it. It was hard to create the videos, it isn’t everyone’s preferred activity.
The course for high school students focused on traditional and new media, and critical media on the future books system that held the videos and interactive exercises. They also created an escape game, on the theme of “AI tries to take over the world”. They used an AI to generate fake images and videos and students were asked to spot the fakes. They have had some positive feedback already from students. The abstract for this talk is on this page (scroll down)
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