ELW-101 Common core Year One Ethics, Law & Wellbeing

Media Literacy & Digital Citizenship

Credibility, misinformation, the creator's responsibility to an audience.

Lectures: 8
Total runtime: 3h 1m
Attendance minimum: 1h 31m
Prerequisites: None

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

Our Information Emergency: Navigating the Media Environment in 2021 The information environment a creator publishes into, and the forces that shaped it Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education 1 Ivy League 21 min
MIT Sloan Experts Series – Sinan Aral: The Truth About Fake News The evidence on how false information actually travels — and who moves it MIT Sloan School of Management 2 Peer institution 34 min
The Facts about Fact Checking: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #2 What professional fact-checkers do that everyone else does not CrashCourse 4 Educational 14 min
Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3 The core skill: lateral reading, and leaving the page to judge the page CrashCourse 4 Educational 14 min
Evaluating Photos & Videos: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #7 Verifying visual evidence before you put it in a video CrashCourse 4 Educational 13 min
Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10 The social platforms themselves: incentives, feeds, and the moment before you share CrashCourse 4 Educational 17 min
Memory and Belief Regression After the Correction of Misinformation Why a correction does not undo the damage: belief regression after retraction Shorenstein Center 1 Ivy League 59 min
Practicum · working creator ...And We'll Do it Again The same problem from the publishing side: a working channel with millions of viewers on what it owes them when a ten-minute video cannot carry the whole truth, and what it does when it gets something wrong (Lectures 3–4 on sourcing, Lecture 7 on corrections) Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell P Practitioner 9 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.