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Wright, Leigh L.; Shemberger, Melony; Price, Elizabeth

doi:10.1177/1077695815598435

“…Grise-Owens et al (2010) developed a model using current events to enhance both implicit and explicit curricula. On an interesting side note, another article stated that the college students’ knowledge of current events is more fragmented than ever before because of so many different sources of information available online (Wright et al , 2016). An in-class activity about a current event may help focus the fragmentation and ground the information on credible sources.…”

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Creation of a COVID-19 business and life lesson: the impact on students’ learning and behavior

Bowyer

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2021

ARJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to encourage other educators to pivot and implement a current event activity when a situation arises. This paper examines the pedagogical benefits of implementing a current event class activity. The author discusses using tacit knowledge of an international trip to heighten awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic while linking it to business management knowledge. Results of a follow-up student survey are also discussed. Design/methodology/approach Considering the potential impact of COVID-19, an in-class activity was implemented and later followed up by a survey that addressed the activity impact. Students conducted brief research on COVID-19 and were put in small groups that analyzed scenarios for potential spread and identified steps business managers could take as safeguards. The entire class discussed the scenarios and potential actions during the upcoming spring break. The associated survey was for future classroom management and feedback concerning COVID-19 and not designed for research purposes. Findings The literature analyses and survey results indicate that pivoting from the syllabus and engaging students in a current event activity can be beneficial. In this study, students displayed increased awareness and changed actions as a result of the class activity. Originality/value This paper shares the author’s perspective regarding deviation from the course syllabus to conduct a class activity focused on a current event, which in this case is the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Real-Life and Virtual News Sources Can Be Flat-Out Wrong

Blom

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2018

Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in Higher Education Environments

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Eyewitnesses play a very important role in news coverage. Yet, scholarly research on eyewitness misidentification and memory distortion is virtually absent in scholarly work in journalism and related academic fields. This chapter emphasizes the need for such a research agenda by analyzing the amount of mistakes student journalists made in a news report they wrote during a 20-minute classroom exercise. Each of the stories about a staged bar fight, except for one, contained pieces of misinformation because the students often blindly trusted eyewitnesses and messages on social media accounts. The results indicated that there is a need for more advanced information and media literacy modules in journalism curricula to avoid inaccurate information from eyewitnesses to be disseminated to the public.

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Real-Life and Virtual News Sources Can Be Flat-Out Wrong

Blom

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2019

Journalism and Ethics

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Eyewitnesses play a very important role in news coverage. Yet, scholarly research on eyewitness misidentification and memory distortion is virtually absent in scholarly work in journalism and related academic fields. This chapter emphasizes the need for such a research agenda by analyzing the amount of mistakes student journalists made in a news report they wrote during a 20-minute classroom exercise. Each of the stories about a staged bar fight, except for one, contained pieces of misinformation because the students often blindly trusted eyewitnesses and messages on social media accounts. The results indicated that there is a need for more advanced information and media literacy modules in journalism curricula to avoid inaccurate information from eyewitnesses to be disseminated to the public.

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Not Another Quiz

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Creation of a COVID-19 business and life lesson: the impact on students’ learning and behavior

Creation of a COVID-19 business and life lesson: the impact on students’ learning and behavior

Real-Life and Virtual News Sources Can Be Flat-Out Wrong

Real-Life and Virtual News Sources Can Be Flat-Out Wrong

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