{"id":524,"date":"2017-07-20T16:09:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/?p=524"},"modified":"2020-06-11T09:21:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:21:06","slug":"how-to-tell-real-news-from-malarkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/how-to-tell-real-news-from-malarkey\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Tell Real News From Malarkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month McGill Library hosted over 100 international high school students who are part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/summeracademy\/\">McGill Summer Academy<\/a>. The students were divided into two streams\u2014International Relations and Neuroscience. \u00a0Humanities and Social Sciences Librarians, Katherine Hanz and Emily Kingsland, designed and led a mobile scavenger hunt for the 50 International Relations students, as well as a fake news workshop called <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.library.mcgill.ca\/workshops-and-tours\/view-by-workshop\/2422\">Black, White, and Re(a)d: How to Tell Real News from Malarkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8534_paddles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-536\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8534_paddles-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8534_paddles-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8534_paddles-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8534_paddles-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8534_paddles-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8534_paddles.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The workshop featured a game called Fake or For Real which incorporated an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLFnif8H2fUH5eI3JjoK9VQ8z5QL87Pi2G\">Instagram Story video series<\/a> of the same name. It was created, produced, and kindly shared with the Library by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/leah-green\">Leah Green<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/eleni-stefanou\">Eleni Stefanou<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/international\">The Guardian<\/a>. Students were given a recent international news headline and asked to vote with their instincts \u2013 was this fake or for real? They then had less than minute to search online to find the answer and vote again.<\/p>\n<p>The students \u2013 who are currently entering grades 11 and 12 \u2013 got into lively debates about the veracity of the news. It was an eye-opening experience for everyone \u2013 the librarians included!<\/p>\n<p>The workshop was such a hit that it will be tailored and offered to McGill students this fall. So mark your calendars, folks! Click <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.library.mcgill.ca\/workshops-and-tours\/view-by-workshop\/2422\">here <\/a>to register.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8570.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-526\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8570-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8570-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8570-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8570-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_8570-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month McGill Library hosted over 100 international high school students who are part of the McGill Summer Academy. The students were divided into two streams\u2014International Relations and Neuroscience. \u00a0Humanities and Social Sciences Librarians, Katherine Hanz and Emily Kingsland, designed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/how-to-tell-real-news-from-malarkey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshops","tag-fake-news","tag-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}