{"id":74,"date":"2018-09-16T18:48:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T18:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/?p=74"},"modified":"2018-09-16T18:48:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T18:48:55","slug":"the-art-of-crap-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/2018\/09\/16\/the-art-of-crap-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Crap Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that I have previously been duped by false information in two different settings.\u00a0 In both cases it would have been great to fact check.\u00a0 The first occurred early on in my teaching career.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even recall the topic now, but I was in the middle of sharing some information with a science class and a student put up their hand.\u00a0 &#8220;Mr. Morrow, I watched <em>Myth Busters<\/em> recently and they said that idea is not true.&#8221;\u00a0 Whether the fact was right or not, I learned to be more careful.\u00a0 The second instance occurred early in my tenure as a facebook user.\u00a0 There was a post that came across the feed explaining that an actor or singer (I don&#8217;t remember) had passed away.\u00a0 As I felt a loss at this news, I quickly shared it on my own page.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t take long for me to hear back from my followers that the information was incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the concept of Mike&#8217;s\u00a0<em>four moves and a habit<\/em>.\u00a0 I feel that I have become more careful because of my previous experiences, <em>four moves<\/em> provides a tool to protect myself further.\u00a0 I tried a couple of Mike&#8217;s challenges.\u00a0 It was great to learn that it takes little time and only a few moves to determine the truth of much of the information that is available online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that I have previously been duped by false information in two different settings.\u00a0 In both cases it would have been great to fact check.\u00a0 The first occurred early on in my teaching career.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even recall the topic now, but I was in the middle of sharing some information with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digitalliteracy","category-four-moves","category-twu-online","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}