Media Literacy with MIT: Sorting Fact from Fiction Online

Series Moderator: Justin Reich Justin Reich is an associate professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT and the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. He is the author of Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, and the host of the TeachLab Podcast, which investigates the art and craft of teaching and how teachers can become even better at what they do. He earned his doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is a past Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society. His writings have been published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other scholarly journals, and public venues. Description: In the age of AI and deepfakes, many people have become increasingly unsure about how they should evaluate the accuracy of online information. In order to help address these issues, today’s session will be hosted by Joel Breakstone, head of the Stanford History Education Group and publisher of the Civic Online Reasoning curriculum. Joel has years of experience helping his students evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.