How To Identify Fake News and Fight Misinformation | Mindset
What you'll learn
- The difference between Fake News, Misinformation, and Disinformation.
- The main types of misinformation and their effects.
- Why smart people are not immune to misinformation and manipulation.
- The main characteristics of a Critical Thinker’s Mindset.
- How to analyze the context of a news segment or claim.
- How to analyze the source of a news segment or claim.
- How to analyze the credentials for the author of a news segment or claim.
- How to analyze the main claim included in a news segment.
Requirements
- A desire to improve your Critical Thinking Skills.
Description
About This Class
Step-By-Step Strategy to help you identify fake news and misinformation by using the methods of Critical Thinking.
Learn how to navigate the abundance of information around you and how to become a socially engaged Critical Thinking advocate that helps make the world we live in a more reliable shared environment.
What You Will Learn
· The difference between Fake News, Misinformation, and Disinformation.
· The main types of misinformation and their effects.
· Why smart people are not immune to misinformation and manipulation.
· The main characteristics of a Critical Thinker’s Mindset.
· How to analyze the context of a news segment or claim.
· How to analyze the source of a news segment or claim.
· How to analyze the credentials for the author of a news segment or claim.
· How to analyze the main claim included in a news segment.
The abundance of information makes identifying fake news and fighting misinformation, an essential skill in navigating the world we live in.
Being able to tell the fake from the real, the sensational from the relevant, and the manipulation from genuine interest, become reliable tools in our decision-making processes and ultimately, shape the way we build our own life and the society we live in.
Enroll in this course and discover new ways to optimize your critical thinking strategies and skills.
Who this course is for:
- All individuals interested in learning new ways to optimize their Critical Thinking strategies and skills.
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 545 Reviews
- 14,389 Students
- 17 Courses
Lucia Grosaru is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with 15+ years of experience in Assertiveness Training. She is the founder and author of the Psychology Corner blog where she mainly writes about Critical Thinking and Communication Skills.
Thousands of people have attended her online courses and live events and one of her main goals is to help people develop their inner potential and achieve their personal and professional goals through methods that promote self-awareness, personal agency, authenticity, and independence.
Prestigious publishing houses, such as Cambridge University Press, and authors have invited her to review their psychology and neuroscience books and she has also collaborated with other professionals in these fields to produce personal development materials.
You can find out more about Lucia Grosaru's professional activities on her blog and through her social media accounts.