MisinfoDay 2020
MisinfoDay 2020 was cancelled due to COVID-19, but would have followed the plan below.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CIP shifted MisinfoDay 2020 from a planned in-person event on UW’s Seattle campus in March to a May 26 virtual event designed for educators and librarians, who represented 15 middle and high schools from five school districts in Washington state.
Ahead of MisinfoDay 2020, CIP director Jevin West and Washington State University digital literacy expert Mike Caulfield produced short videos answering questions that had been submitted by students who were slated to participate in the in-person MisinfoDay event.
- Question 1: How do we disprove false information?
- Question 2: How do we address people when they believe what we know is wrong?
- Question 3: What’s the boundary between OK interpretations of news and propaganda?
- Question 4: How does fact-checking work?
- Question 5: What distinguishes a reliable source from an unreliable source?
ORIGINAL SCHEDULE
9:30 | Doors Open |
10:00-10:30 | Check in + Welcome |
10:45-11:30 | Presentation: Fact-Checking Claims & Sources with Mike Caulfield |
11:45-12:30 | Panel: Who Should We Trust? Sorting Fact from Fiction |
12:40-1:10 | Lunch break |
1:25-2:05 | (Mis)Info Fair |
2:05-2:15 | Closing: Students fill out survey & hear short closing remarks |
Split into three groups to accommodate 500 people:
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | |
9:30 | Doors Open | ||
10:00-10:30 | Check in + Welcome | ||
10:45-11:30 | Presentation | Panel | (Mis)Info Fair |
11:40-12:25 | Panel | (Mis)Info Fair | Presentation |
12:40-1:10 | Lunch | ||
1:25-2:05 | (Mis)Info Fair | Presentation | Panel |
2:05-2:15 | Students fill out survey & hear short closing remarks | ||
PARTICIPANTS
Nine schools were registered to attend MisinfoDay 2020 at the UW Seattle campus, with 5 to 100 students attending from each school. Interested educators from eight additional schools registered to attend on their own.
PARTNERS
MisinfoDay 2020 would have been made possible by:
- Presenters from the UW Center for an Informed Public, UW Libraries, UW Department of Communication, and Washington State University Vancouver.
- 30 students from the UW Information School and Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering to run the (Mis)Info Fair.