Auto-Annotating News Articles To Scaffold Media Literacy Skills In Students

 

I’ve been playing around a bit with auto-annotating news articles to foster better literacy reflexes in students. Here’s the latest work in progress: I’ve made an annotation bot that goes out and finds articles mentioning industry front groups and asks students to do research to confirm or deny the connection.

https://hapgood.us/2017/05/10/auto-annotating-news-articles-to-scaffold-media-literacy-skills-in-students/