{"id":278,"date":"2007-08-08T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T14:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/08\/bogus-websites-improves-media-literacy\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T09:46:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T14:46:22","slug":"bogus-websites-improves-media-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2007\/08\/08\/bogus-websites-improves-media-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus Websites Improve Media Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bogus&#8221; or <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofhoaxes.com\/hoaxsites.html\" target=\"_blank\">hoax websites<\/a> <\/em>(like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/index\" target=\"_blank\">The Onion<\/a><\/em>) can serve as excellent tools in fostering  students&#8217; media literacy and critical evaluation skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhmo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/DMRDlogo.gif?resize=198%2C96\" alt=\"Dihydrogen Monoxide Website\" height=\"96\" width=\"198\" \/><\/a> The <strong>Dihydrogen Monoxide Research<\/strong> website is a great hoax site to spur the critical thinking skills of young scientists. I leave it up to you to decide if these theories <em>hold any water.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zapatopi.net\/afdb\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/afdblogo.png?resize=150%2C85\" alt=\"Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie\" height=\"85\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a> Read how the <strong>Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie<\/strong> (AFDB) &#8220;can shield your brain from most electromagnetic psychotronic mind control carriers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also read <strong>Ken Umbach<\/strong>&#8216;s article on how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umbachconsulting.com\/miscellany\/velcro.html\" target=\"_blank\">California&#8217;s Velcro Crop is Under Challenge<\/a>. The <strong>Government of Western Australia&#8217;s Department of Education and Training<\/strong> has a useful article with resource links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.det.wa.edu.au\/education\/cmis\/eval\/curriculum\/ict\/webeval\/eval12.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bogus Websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bogus&#8221; or hoax websites (like The Onion) can serve as excellent tools in fostering students&#8217; media literacy and critical evaluation skills. The Dihydrogen Monoxide Research website is a great hoax site to spur the critical thinking skills of young scientists. I leave it up to you to decide if these theories hold any water. Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1785,393,740,974,1243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bogus-websites","category-curriculum-development","category-hoaxes","category-media-literacy","category-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-4u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}