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
Are you looking for lessons to teach your students how to interact online with benevolent intention and personal safeguards? This spring semester, I teach a component of an interdisciplinary college course on technology called, Wired, with a dozen … 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