first watch “Information Literacy
(Links to an external site.)
” – a TED Talk by Kevin Arms.
Step 2:
After watching the video, respond to the following 7 questions.
When finished, you will upload your response as a Microsoft Word
doc or docx file or PDF.
1. The title of this TED Talk is “Information Literacy;” however,
Arms focuses a lot of his talk on fake news. Based on this video,
what is the relationship between these two concepts? How can
having information literacy help us to fight fake news?
2. According to Arms, some fake news is obvious and easy to
spot while other fake news is more difficult to identify. What are
some examples that Arms provides of both types of fake news?
3. Arms discusses the ways in which fake news can have realworld consequences. What is at least one example that he
provides of this?
4. What are the three specific questions that Arms says can help
us to practice information literacy?
5. Find an online article and use that article to answer the three
specific questions you identified in #4. The online article you find
can be on any topic and from any source. Provide the link to the
article you’ve chosen along with your detailed responses to the
three information literacy questions.
6. Based on your responses to these information literacy
questions, do you think that the online article you analyzed is an
example of real news or fake news? Do you think that this is a
credible source? Why or why not?
