Alec Couros
Hello! This past week we had a very informative presentation by Alec Couros . He joined our Internet for Educators class #14ED via Zoom . Does that name ring bell? If it does, you're right, I've blogged about his works previously. He was the one who created the typical teachers network vs. modern connected teachers network diagrams. Alec's presentation was about how students should keep a close eye on what kind of news could be FAKE NEWS . He states that fake news is all about power and money. There are several different forms of fake news and some are harder to detect than others. Alec writes on his webpage "education plays a more urgent and important role than ever before". This is something that we as educators really need to think about because when those students walk through the door, they are looking to us to help them navigate through the growing digital world. Alec brought to our attention ways in which we can look at materials and to use our crit...