Google's attempt to educate fake news and esmedia inspecting with the Chromebook application

A number of "flying over the net"Fake NewsIt is becoming a big issue in the Internet society to cultivate "media literacy ability" how to find out the "lie news deliberately flushed". Meanwhile, Google held a conference on education held from June 25 to 28, 2017ISTE 2017(International Society for Technology in Education), we released an application for Chromebook to cultivate media literacy.

Developing critical reading skills with media literacy apps on Chromebooks
https://www.blog.google/topics/education/developing-critical-reading-skills-media-literacy-apps-chromebooks/

It is regarded as a very good opportunity to make students feel the things that are happening in the world to the students in real time by incorporating the event occurring at the time of education in real time. In addition to media such as newspapers and television, it is important now to build your own ideas based on information flowing in the net, but at the same time as before, "information of lies", that is, "fake news You will be asked for the ability to see through. This is judgment on media "Media literacy"This ability is not only my own judgment, it is thought to have a big influence on the subsequent career formation and life.

The group of applications announced by Google as an approach to such a situation is "Media Literacy apps on Chromebooks"is. This app, the information that students of the school has touched on the online, things to have been developed for the purpose to be a help for thinking accurately be evaluated on their own.

Media Literacy apps on Chromebooks was bundled with "Scrible", a research platform for gathering news and organizing them with their own comments, and e-learning tool "Frontier" for compiling their thoughts through reading and writing The object is to train media literacy by combining both applications.

ScribleYou can save web pages, save bookmarks and important files on the cloud, collect information and create your own library. You can tag the library and search the information by searching the full text. Also, in addition to being able to comment on the article in the local environment, it makes it possible to share comments directly with the web page and share it with others.


AndFrontierIs a tool to conduct training to arrange their ideas based on the collected information. It is intended for students in the Japanese elementary school age equivalent to junior high school second graders and is intended to cultivate the ability to think through news reading and writing.


They said that these apps can be purchased at a special price in conjunction with Chromebook products or Chromebook dealers in the USA. In the situation where a lot of information floods and the reliability of its content is a cobblestone, it is the information that will continue to float in the future to cultivate the ability to extract reliable information and the way of thinking among them It is not an exaggeration to say that it makes an accurate judgment in the storm of the day and becomes important "living power" for not fading to the dark side of fake news. I would like to expect similar services to be offered in Japan as well.