Nearly 1,000 high school students, teachers, librarians and other educators from across Washington will travel to the University of Washington and Washington State University in the coming weeks to participate in MisinfoDay 2023 activities, co-presented through a statewide partnership between UW’s Center for an Informed Public and WSU’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.
Through workshops and other activities at WSU Pullman (March 6), WSU Vancouver (March 8) and UW Seattle (March 14), students will learn about the landscape of misinformation and become critical evaluators and thinkers better able to navigate confusing information environments. Along with the in-person events, hundreds more students will take part in the MisinfoDay lessons and activities added to the virtual library from their high school classrooms in the coming weeks.
Among highlights from this year’s program:
- Workshops facilitated by experts at UW and WSU on Media Literacy & Misinformation, How to Debunk Deceptive Data; Misinformation in Memes; TikTok and Viral Misinformation and Responding to Misinformation Online, a session where students — using a toolkit developed by a team of researchers, including those affiliated with the UW CIP — will explore strategies for reflecting on and responding to misinformation online and then practice applying approaches from the toolkit. Registration closes on Feb. 15. Learn more about workshops and facilitators here.
- Our Loki’s Loop misinformation-themed escape room game, developed through a research partnership among the CIP, Technology & Social Change Group, GAMER Group at the iSchool, and Seattle-based Puzzle Break. To learn more about the work behind Loki’s Loop, including the development of the Euphorigen Investigation game, watch this video.
- In addition to those three in-person events, two new MisinfoDay lessons and our Loki’s Loop game activities will be available in March for those not able to participate in person at UW or WSU. Register for MisinfoDay virtual content and escape room game by March 1 to receive access.
Workshop content was reviewed and tested by the MisinfoDay Youth Advisory Board, a group of students from nine high schools in Washington state, to ensure the program best reflects how misinformation affects them and how we can help them become better prepared to navigate it.
“It’s been wonderful to see interest in MisinfoDay grow and our educational lessons and activities reach more schools, classrooms and students across Washington and beyond,” said Liz Crouse, who helped organize the first MisinfoDay at the UW Information School as a Master in Library and Information Sciences student in 2019 and now serves as the CIP’s MisinfoDay coordinator.
- PREVIOUSLY: See highlights and key lessons from MisinfoDay 2022, which was featured by The Seattle Times, KUOW Public Radio and Northwest Public Broadcasting.
