Mike Caulfield, co-author of Verified, a practical guide on using the Internet to verify claims, recently released ‘Deep Background’ a rigorous AI-based fact-checker that anyone can use for free. You can access ‘Deep Background’ in ChatGPT or paste … Read more
What is digital wellbeing and why does it matter more than ever? Higher education has been transformed in recent months in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as face-to-face teaching on campus has been abruptly moved online. For most … Read more
Mike Caulfield is the director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University, Vancouver (WSU). He regularly blogs about edtech topics at Hapgood. He is an expert on informal learning, online communities and open educational resources. Throughout … Read more
Figure 1. A Hoaxy® diffusion network regarding claims about the HPV vaccine. Falsehoods are spread due to biases in the brain, society, and computer algorithms (Ciampaglia & Menczer, 2018). A combined problem is “information overload and limited attention … Read more