Nov 1, 2023 | Education, Events, News, Research, Uncategorized
By Michael Grass Center for an Informed Public University of Washington During “Generative Misinformation,” an October 27 talk at Town Hall Seattle sponsored by the University of Washington Graduate School’s Office of Public Lectures, iSchool associate professor and...
Jul 7, 2023 | Education, News, Updates
The Center for an Informed Public co-hosted approximately 35 teachers, librarians and other educators for a two-day professional development workshop, “Teaching for Resilience: FinnishED,” on June 9–10 at the University of Washington in Seattle, an opportunity to...
May 16, 2023 | Education, Events, MisinfoDay, News, Updates
The University of Washington Alumni Association, through its UW Impact program, with the Washington State University Alumni Association, recently co-presented a special virtual two-hour Mini MisinfoDay educational event, a series of short talks and innovative...
Mar 28, 2023 | Education, MisinfoDay, News, Updates
By Michael Grass Approximately 700 Washington high school students, teachers, librarians and other educators participated in MisinfoDay 2023 programs in March across three in-person events at the University of Washington in Seattle and Washington State University in...
Mar 1, 2023 | Education, News, Updates
Photo above: The main railway station in Helsinki, Finland by Juha Uitto / Flickr via CC BY-NC 2.0 CIP continues work to foster educational ties with Finnish peers around efforts to improve information literacy skills. The challenges we face navigating mis- and...
Feb 21, 2023 | Education, News, Recent Press, Updates
Although scientists and researchers have been debunking myths around monosodium glutamate for decades, it’s not uncommon to come across online reviews for local Chinese restaurants where Yelp users make unfounded claims about the food ingredient better known as MSG,...
