Lateral Reading: Fight Fake News Like a Pro

Dates: May 14, 2021
Meets: Friday from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
 Location: Online Presentation
Cost:  $0.00
Date Day Time
05/14/2021Friday1 PM to 2:30 PM

Please note: This course program requires membership in a 2020 - 2021 OLLI at MSU Membership or 2021 - 2022 OLLI at MSU Membership or 2021 - 2022 OLLI at MSU Membership

How can you differentiate good information from bad on the web? Now more than ever, sites of mis-, dis- or fringe information are all over the place, and they're not easy to identify using the traditional tools of close reading and evaluation that many of us learned in school. In this special event, a live demonstration of lateral reading will help you learn how to determine who is behind information, what evidence supports the claims made by a site and what other (reputable) sources say about a site. Lateral reading, a set of skills and strategies used by fact checkers, is one of the most powerful digital literacy techniques you can use to recognize fake news, limit its spread and educate yourself.

This event is a Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at MSU and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UM (MOLLI) shared special member event.

Registration will CLOSE at 8am the day PRIOR to this event.

    • A recording of this MOLLI program will NOT be available to OLLI at MSU participants.  
Fee:  $0.00

Online Presentation

This is a real-time (live) online class that meets at the specified day(s)/time(s) listed.

We will send you a reminder email with login instructions one business day before the program start date. If there are additional sessions, we will send reminders the morning of those sessions.

Julie Biando Edwards

Julie Biando Edwards is a librarian with a background in public, academic and international librarianship. She was project director for "First Folio! The Book That Gave us Shakespeare" and "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings." The author of numerous articles and books, she recently returned from two years spent teaching future librarians at the University of Botswana as a Fulbright Scholar.
The morning of May 14th, you will receive an email containing a Zoom link for Julie Edwards's special MOLLI-OLLIatMSU member event - Lateral Reading: Fight Fake News Like a Pro. Everyone will have a link that is unique to them. This online lecture will be presented as a Zoom Webinar, which means you will not have video or audio access for yourself, you will only be able to see and hear the instructor and her PowerPoint presentation. There is a chat or Q&A feature either on the bottom of your screen or on the top depending on your device. You may open either one of those and type your questions in there. ***IMPORTANT INFORMATION*** Make sure to download Zoom to your device before the lecture (if you have not used Zoom before). You can click on the link below to download "Zoom Client for Meetings" or open your app store if you are using a smart phone or other smart device and download "Zoom Cloud Meeting." https://zoom.us/download For any Zoom issues, please click on the following link for support. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206175806-Frequently-asked-questions

o A recording of this MOLLI program will NOT be available to OLLI at MSU participants.