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Week of March 11, 2024 As part of a media balance, we want to ensure we are spending our time in the best way possible. What do we understand about all that is available to us online? What do we need to know?
THIS WEEK Have you heard of Hurricane Sandy? Superstorm Sandy was actually several storms wrapped together, which made it one of the most damaging hurricanes ever to make landfall in the U.S. Take a look at this article:
___________________________ Fake Hurricane Sandy Photos Spread On Internet As Storm Barrels Toward Northeast These Are NOT Photos From Hurricane Sandy (No Matter What The Internet Says) By Meredith Bennett-Smith Oct 29, 2012, 05:31 PM EDT|Updated Oct 30, 2012
It's an arresting photograph: Three soldiers in full uniform keep watch at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as Hurricane Sandy soaks them to the core.On Facebook, the stirring picture has more than 70,000 likes and 90,000 shares, and the viral image was picked up by NPR, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo and others according to Poynter. The only problem? It's not a picture from Hurricane Sandy. In a comment posted by Poynter, Markert elaborates on theimage's (inaccurate) claim to fame. "I was using it as my Facebook cover photo, which apparently is 'public,' and what do you know? … Nobody 'stole' it, IMHO. My guess is people are just sharing how proud they are of these soldiers and others," she said. As the hurricane originally dubbed "Frankenstorm" dumps water throughout the Northeast, the Internet has been similarly flooded with "amazing" pictures of the storm that are truly too good to be true. This photo has also been retweeted thousands of times:
Unfortunately, the picture is not from Hurricane Sandy, but rather from a tornado warning last year. Originally appearing in this Wall Street Journal article, the photo was taken through a tinted window by a finance professional named Charles Menjivar. ____________________________________________________________________________ Why do people post information that isn't true? Why do we believe it?
Each table group will be assigned one of the following. Please read the selection and be ready to describe it to the class.
This Week As part of a media balance, we want to ensure we are spending our time in the best way possible. What do we understand about all that is available to us online? What do we need to know?
This Week and next Let's have a conversation about our digital world. I would love it if you would think about the idea of finding the best "media balance." That means:
Reflect on how balanced we are in our daily lives.
Consider what "media balance" means, and how it applies to us.
Create a personalized plan for healthy and balanced media use.
Take a look at the pyramid below. It is setup like the food pyramid, but the blocks are blocks of the different activities we do with the time we spend on screens. Why do you think the authors feel it is ok to spend more time on screens CREATING than gaming in isolation ( playing on your own?) Take a look at your own screen use this week. If you like, you can write down the amount of time you spend in each activity, but you can also keep track of it in your head. At the end of the week, look at the pyramid again. Have you followed those guidelines fairly well? Or have you done something different? How do you feel about your choices? Are you accomplishing everything you would like to? Are your days looking like your perfect day ( above, ) or something else?