This blog uses a hoax website dedicated to the plight of the fictious North Western Tree Octopus, to exemplify the importance of critical digital literacy in schools, and elsewhere.
American educators use this post to demonstrate how easily people, including teachers, can be fooled by supposed 'secure' or 'valid' internet webstes. Being digitally savvy is increasingly important in a world so heavily reliant upon technology. It is therefore important to teach students skills to discern fact from fiction, when researching online.
I was impressed with this video. Although I was previously aware of the dangers of webased heresy, I had not considered how easily a person/organisation/group can purchase domain names ending in 'org' and 'edu', which previously assumed were reliable.
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