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Mike Caulfield, head of the Digital Polarization Initiative at the American Democracy Project and director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver, joins us today to talk about engaging students in media literacy. He recently published the open Creative Commons licensed textbook “Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers.”

Show Notes

• Refactoring media literacy for the networked age (Nieman Lab)
• Digital Polarization Project
• Hapgood (Mike’s blog)
  • Referenced blog posts:
    • I’m Writing a Book On the Disinfotopia of Social Media
    • Despite Zuckerberg’s Protests, Fake News Does Better on Facebook Than Real News. Here’s Data to Prove It.
    • Wikity, One Year Later
• Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers (Mike’s book)