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apwtstationery · 1 year

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Printable DEF Bookmark Set - From APWT Stationery

#bookmark design #diy bookmark #bookmarksforsale #handmade bookmark #bookmark #bookmarkart #reading #learning #education #diy gifts #literacy aids #adult literacy #literacy tools #english as a second language #learn english #kids gifts #early learners

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bossbabyofficial · 3 months

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#actually sokkas plotline if unlearning his misoginy isn't important and it's only in a few episodes and it really is problematic if you #think about it and we can't have characters with flaws now can we. also a plotline of a teenage boy learning to not be misoginystic isn't #still relevant today.#<- i have used a clever tool named sarcasm which you can learn all about through media literacy.#avatar the last airbender #jessie.pdf

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rovermcfly · 2 years

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Media Literacy Masterpost

This post is constantly evolving. You can help by sharing resources you know, pointing out broken links or even expressing criticism of the resources provided here if you have any. Come back any time to see if there's anything new. (Google Docs version for easier sharing outside tumblr)

Updated: September 14th 2023

The Basics

Get answers to the first questions you might have: What is media literacy? Why should I care? How does it affect me and others? Is there even anything I can still learn if I feel pretty internet-savvy? And more.

Websites

Get a more in-depth look at certain aspects of media literacy and learn about and apply media literacy skills. (alphabetical order)

Casey Fiesler

Check Your Fact

The Conspiracy Chart

Harvard Misinformation Review

InVid

The Media Bias Chart

Media Literacy Now

MediaSmarts

MediaWise (by Poynter)

National Association for Media Literacy Education

News Literacy Project

Poynter

Reuters Fact Check

SourceWatch

Truth Decay Project Tools Database* (A lot of websites that are relevant are listed here. Only websites that aren't on that list will be listed in this post)

Articles

See what experts have to say.

Interactive Learning Tools

This can help you learn about media literacy in a more hands-on way. (alphabetical order)

Critical Thinking Project

Go Viral! (Covid Misinformation)

News Lit Quiz

Truth Decay Project Education/Training Tools* (A lot of interactive tools that are relevant are listed here. Only websites and tools that aren't on that list will be listed in this post)

Social Media

Following these accounts can help sharpen your media literacy skills and you don't even have to do much because it will just pop up in your feeds! Follow, like, comment, retweet, etc. to help spread the word. (alphabetical order)

Instagram

Media Literacy Now

MediaWise

PolitiFact

TikTok

Abbie Richards

Adam Conover

Aslan Pahari

Astro Alexandra

babs_zone

Hank Green

MediaWise

PolitiFact

Professor Casey

Zeke Darwin

Tumblr

@is-the-post-reliable

Twitter

I have personally left twitter due to its new ownership, so it will be difficult for me to keep vetting the listed accounts the way I used to, however I will keep them listed as long as I still trust them.

Abbie Richards

AFP Fact Check

Fact-Checking Network

Media Literacy Now

MediaWise

National Association for Media Literacy Education

PolitiFact

Reuters Fact Check

YouTube

MediaSmarts

MediaWise

PolitiFact

Bonus

My media literacy tag

Remember to share these resources to help shape a world wide web that is safer and smarter and protect yourself and others from manipulation and radicalization.

* Criticism of this source has been expressed. I've provided my reasoning to still include it as well. I encourage you to make your own judgement.

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(I could since then not find an obvious bias in the lists that I have linked)

Information on the history of the RAND Corporation and its involvement with the US Military here.

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pearl-crystals · 2 months

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Doodles Dump Cake

Another compiled post of doodles! These are ones I want to either make into big pictures or just had tons of fun doing.

There is a ton and my phone was acting weird trying to upload these. So heads up if you are having any trouble. If you are let me know!

I hope you enjoy em!!

#Mario + Rabbids #Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope #Rabbids Woodrow #Rabbods Sweetlopek #Rabbids Dryad #Rabbids Phantom #Tom Phan #I think that Dryad would originally scare Woodrow just by appearing and his literacy knowledge on faes #But also that before Woodrow's big canon event that he would rem #I'm also waiting on some of my tools for bigger pictures #Rabbids Bea #Rabbids Augie #Rabbid Rosalina #Rabbids Orion #Rabbids Luigi #Trolls Clay #I have one clay in the middle of these Rabbid sketches hahaha #I just got some of my tools I've been waiting on and I wanted to try them out!#BTW I've been looking through Palette Prime on my replay and I am gathering so much info #Like Woodrow was squished by a ship after reading around 1142 poems #His current number when reaching Plaette Prime is 7643.#Talk about dedication. Determination. And perseverance!#Personal Art

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1o1percentmilk · 2 months

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the issue with AI chatbots is that they should NEVER be your first choice if you are building something to handle easily automated forms.... consider an algorithmic "choose your own adventure" style chatbot first

it really seems to me that the air canada chatbot was intended to be smth that could automatically handle customer service issues but honestly... if you do not need any sort of "human touch" then i would recommend a "fancier google form"... like a more advanced flowchart of issues. If you NEED AI to be part of your chatbot I would incorporate it as part of the input parsing - you should not be using it to generate new information!

#literally everyone sees AI and gets so hard they black out and it ANNOYS me!#prediction/recognition AI is fine i guess it's not without flaws but it is leagues better than generative AI #but also - use the right tool for the job #like the article said it was using ai chatbot to handle customer service. Is it so hard to create a series of pre-made questions to guide #-a customer through the process? (this is called a wizard i think)#(most importantly wizards have been around for pretty much as long as GUIs have)#'oh but you need to hardcode it' yeah and hardcoding stuff came free with having a job. Turn your questions into a series of markdown #-documents if you need someone with no tech skill to come in and put in the questions #don't outsource it to an AI. You are lowering the overall tech literacy of the population here and im not kidding #there are good uses of AI.. Woebot is a really good chatbot that uses AI precisely because it has a lot of human oversight in it #but i really think that AI is something that you better have a PERFECT - not just good - justification for #sorry.... angry tech guy rant.... i swear i dont do this in real life... i just like typing...

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liminalweirdo · 4 months

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what do you think are the most important things to utilize if someone wanted to learn to amplify their tech-literacy/tech-using experience?

We all know about add-block and anti-tracker add-ons, I'm thinking things like using github for various things, downloading youtube vids using yt-dlp. etc. etc. Bonus points if you can drop guides/how-tos

Other examples are things you can do with word, like adding macros, etc.

Also, what are your favourite non-game programs and apps? This could be anything.

i'm hoping to get a list where lots of folks can add on so if you could reblog that would be awesome

#tech stuff #tech #tech literacy #apps #organization #piracy #computers #programs #resource #tools #internet tools #computer stuff #computer tricks #technology

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parameddic · 2 days

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i had such a good and interesting characterisation thought re. TK in the context of replying to this ask but i don't remember what it was very clearly and so i'm just. sitting here. trying to trigger the same thought

#something something tk would believe/deny it blind. because the idea that a team (even a sub-sub-sub-team) could be betrayed that badly #just wouldn't enter his vocabulary of allowable events #it would not Occur to him that someone might have left the boys for dead like that #marjan would believe it. it would occur to her. she especially has the media literacy for it but also she is not a. cis white man #right? right? but i don't remember exactly how i wanted that point to come up in the newspaper thing and i don't know how i decided #the others were going to fall on that line and anyway #tk would not be UNWILLING to see it he just would miss it the first few times someone said it bc he would not #be expecting to see it. he Would Not be expecting to see it.#'vocabulary of allowable events' is a good way to put it good work me #who would do that? who would just Set Them Up?#that's not even. those details wouldn't be In. there's like Steps to this characterisation even appearing at all #it would not be a direct one-to-one conversation about it just a. note somewhere abstractly that even if it DID come up he wouldn't have #the tools to believe it. .... i am getting lost.#i know the thought is in there i just keep sitting down to write it and going ahhhhhh!#''aster could this not be a direct message'' yeah but i wasn't planning it to be a whole talking it out in the tags #and now they're all in the tags #and now u get this. love u squid #tbd #when i actually write the thing instead of sitting here. contemplating #plus also it . does not require a response im just out louding. cause it's neat!#it's about tk!#it's about who he is at his core including the messy and a little bit mean (accidentally) bits!#sighs sighs sighs sighs. i love him

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ebookporn · 11 months

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Why comics and graphic novels like ‘Maus’ are effective teaching tools

by Ian Thomsen

“I started making comics as a way to try to help my students grasp the difficult concepts,” Landherr said at the Boston Kids Comics Fest, which drew about 1,000 visitors Saturday to Northeastern’s Curry Student Center. He was selling copies of his comic series, “PhD Unknown,” at an exhibitor’s table promoting his engineering education research group, Science The World, which is home to dozens of comics covering data analysis, gene therapy, refrigeration cycles, momentum transfer and other complex topics. “I’ve seen exam grades go from 62 to 80,” Landherr says of the effectiveness of the comics as a university teaching tool. “Over the course of a couple of semesters I’ve had students make their own comics as an assignment in the class, even though it’s an engineering class.”

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mansorus · 10 months

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Use it wisely & strategically

#art #generationalwealth #mansorus #mental health awareness #philly #money counter #unlimited money #money motivation #money is a tool #tools #assets #responsibility #financial literacy #finances

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sleepydrummer · 2 years

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#local library #library #libraries #public libraries #neil gaiman #low tech #tool #resource #librarian #librarians #subject matter #books #literature #literacy #intellectual vitality

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apwtstationery · 1 year

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Printable VWYZ Alphabet Bookmark Set - From APWT Stationery

(4) Printable 2 x 6 inch Bookmarks Included - Just purchase, download, and print

#bookmark design #diy bookmark #bookmarksforsale #handmade bookmark #bookmark #printables #reading #book lovers #diycrafts #education #literacy aids #adult literacy #literacy tools #literacy #english as a second language #english vocabulary #learn english #diy gifts

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rovermcfly · 2 years

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ok I wanna talk about these posts

Now I don't wanna say these posts are wrong or that I disagree with them, but they are only two of many that I see in a similar vein and my general take is: We need to change the way we have this conversation.

Because yes. It is true that young people get indoctrinated on TikTok (and other platforms including tumblr!) in the same way older generations get indoctrinated through FOX News or Facebook.

But we can't let these conversations always start and stop with "these groups are gullible and THIS vague entity is responsible for it and I am so smart for realising this and they're stupid for not realising it".

We need to finally start solution-oriented conversations. We need people who don't just point at the problem but actually talk about how we can fix it.

TikTok has an issue with misinformation that users don't have the tools to recognise?

Well here's a list of only a few of the TikTok accounts that fight this issue right on the platform where they can get these users' attention.

MediaWise

Abbie Richards

Aslan Pahari

Astro Alexandra

Professor Casey

Hank Green

Adam Conover

All of these, to varying degrees, correct misinformation and/or provide tools to promote media literacy. Some even want to help change the platform altogether.

I know not everyone who wants to help can do things like this, but a good place to start helping change things would be to support these accounts and all the other people out there doing what they do. Most of them are on other platforms or have websites (or Patreon/Ko-Fi/etc bc monetary support for these efforts is important too) if you don't wanna get a TikTok account to help them get more attention.

And here is a Masterpost where I collect resources for how to improve your own media literacy and how to help others do the same (and I promise you, no matter how smart or skilled or media-literate you think you are, you will learn something new from these). This masterpost is updated regularly and includes a longer list of TikTok users to follow as well.

So next time you see a post like this about how stupid TikTok users are for falling for conspiracies or how Facebook is nothing but fake news or whatever, think about whether the post is actually helping in some way or only trying to make tumblr users feel superior over others, and maybe try to share something you learned here instead.

#some problems ARE fixable but sarcasm and bitterness isn't the way to do it #I know this post is long but I'd appreciate if ppl still read and shared it #I just don't like this generalising attitude #tumblr users aren't any more safe from misinformation and posts like these just promote that assumption #which in turn leads to tumblr users becoming even mkre vulnerable to it bc they believe they're immume just bc they're not on TikTok #you know exactly like the post itself said abt tiktok users #this is just a very toxic way to have this conversation #and I'm not saying the frustration isn't justified #but they do nothing at best and actual damage at worst #and worst of all they look at vulnerable ppl and essentially call them stupid #they're not any more stupid than you or me. they just don't have the tools to navigate information online yet #but we can actually help with that #so let's try okay #media literacy #misinformation #disinformation #conspiracy theories #abbie richards #hank green #tiktok #tumblr #fake news #positive mental attitude #id in alt

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alicedrawslesmis · 1 year

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victor hugo really is the guy who you read and constantly have to call a little shit

#toilers liveblog #also a weird defender of advertising as a literacy tool. okay

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crabcrabcrabmeat · 9 months

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#literacy attempt #dunno how i feel narrative wise abt lalah n char's dynamic being more spelled out but i think this highlights how he works #as a ~morally grey~ character in the classical sense of 'evil but feels bad abt it' way without it being too cliche #hes not extorting her #rather shes happy to seek his affections by deciding to be subservient/useful to him #even what that means self objectification--- becoming a tool #its a complex dance of complicity #its rare to see a straight couple (put the scarequotes where u will) depicted as suffering from comphet #it hits

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blitz0hno · 10 months

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ppl who keep complaining about hb characters "breaking" character in the ways they react to things etc. demonstrate time and again that they have no idea how adults and their relationships work

#Go home kiddies #Helluva Boss is an Adult cartoon!#If u wanna take the comedy's plot seriously ur gonna need a little tool called Media Literacy

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800-dick-pics · 1 year

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im way more afraid of the long term effects of hormonal birth control+IUDs than i am medical or herbal abortions

like ovulation is actually really important for your long term bone density! so id like to keep that goin yfm??

im glad hormonal bc is out there for other people for health or sex but after i learned my own fertility patterns, practice FAM, and became and herbalist im not worried about pregnacy or pregnacy scares.

FAM/fertility autonomy its freeing bc youre actually DIRECTLY incharge of if or when you actually wanna have a child or not, gives u the power to prevent egg implantion or to go ahead with an abortion, or helps you track your PCOS or transition into menopause, and helps you have body literacy in other areas too!

wish more ppl knew theres other options besides standardized birth control bc if were gonna be honest, all of them are very sucky.... and for me getting nutted in isnt worth that hassle of birth control

#me #personal #vent #i could write a long essay or hefty zine about FAM body literacy and fertility autonomy #im glad i found it bc all hormonal birth control makes me sick depressed fatter and like genrally not well #and id rather get an abortion or take the steps to prevent egg implantion than be on a pill or implant that makes me sick #if your birth control isnt making yourblife better then take steps to figure out why and if the Fertility awareness method would work for u #also pls use condoms when youre with untested partners or ovulating c:#condoms are great #theyre a tool in the tool box so use them!

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