Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/York University/Fake News, Fact-Finding, and the Future of Journalism (Winter 2021)

What is fake news? How does it spread? How do we distinguish fact from fake? Are social media to blame? This class addresses the fake news challenge and teaches students to be informed consumers of information. This means developing information literacy, and a stronger understanding of the platforms and politics involved in the communication of fake news and facts.

Week 7
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 8
Please review the assignment instructions posted to eClass. The instructions describe using the citation tool, adding a citation to a sentence in your Wikipedia sandbox, and completing the 500-750 word analysis in a Word document.

Week 13
The Wikipedia assignment is due on April 8, 2020.