The purpose of this research is to find evidence for the assumption that allowing children to create their own news messages is an effective approach to teach them how to distinguish between reliable news and fake news. Three students of the primary teacher training programme of The Hague University of Applied Sciences developed five lessons concerning fake news and five Kahoot! quizzes for each of those lessons. They taught the lessons they developed under the supervision of a primary school teacher and one of their lecturers from the university. A Friedman test on the scores of the Kahoot! quizzes indicate that the children made progress over the course of the study. In addition, it appears that the children appreciated the lessons and that they have learned how news is created and how fake news can be recognised. The outcomes of this study have prompted a larger, international Erasmus+ project. Schools and libraries in three countries will investigate similar innovative blended-learning approaches for pupils between ages 12 to 15.
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Hoofdstuk 4 van Nieuwsvoorziening in de regio Dit verslag gaat over onafhankelijke lokale nieuws-websites. Daarvan zijn er honderden in Nederland. Dat is dus zonder de websites van kranten, nieuwsbladen, huis-aan-huisbladen en lokale omroepen. Ook aggregatie-sites zijn buiten beschouwing gelaten. Als we die ook mee zouden tellen zouden we op duizenden sites komen. Geen probleem met de lokale nieuwsvoorziening zou je zeggen. Maar op aggregatiesites staat alleen maar nieuws dat eerst ergens anders geplaatst is terwijl sites van printmedia en omroepen vooral het verlengstuk van die media zijn. De echte vernieuwing zou dus moeten komen van die onafhankelijk initiatieven, de één-pitters die op hun zolderkamer de lokale politiek willen coveren, de betrokken burgers die de aandacht van de reguliere media te mager vinden, de ondernemers die een gat in de lokale markt zien. Over die groep – zo’n 125 initiatieven die ruim 300 websites exploiteren – gaat dit rapport: wie zijn ze, waar zitten ze, waarom zijn ze met hun site begonnen, hoe verdienen ze hun geld, hoe komen ze aan hun nieuws, waar schrijven ze over, hoeveel mensen werken er…
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In this article, we explain how we envision the further interconnection of existing initiatives of online local memory collecting into a new social infrastructure, that is beneficial to the whole of Amsterdam. Three examples of local memory websites show how large districts in the East, South and West are represented thoroughly by local residents, in spite of differences in organizational characteristics. The concept of empowerment, as a multilevel construct, lends itself to frame these examples as important building blocks of socially sustainable districts and neighborhoods. Local knowledge, experiences and people become connected across Amsterdam when local memory websites become interconnected, by introducing city-wide compelling themes. Discussing this social infrastructure in relation to the concept of smart cities, leads us to a plea for more research focus on sociably smart cities.
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