The explosion of false information online in numerous fields﹘health, nutrition, medical, fitness and political﹘makes it critical for viewers to quickly evaluate a website in a few seconds for reliability. The rise of social media influencers are blurring the lines in many areas, including nutrition and medicine, where peers are viewed as credible as experts. A quick screening checklist can assist the viewer critically analyze information and determine if it is true or false news, to follow nutrition or medical advice, to make an online purchase, or to use it as a fact-based resource in a class assignment.
The presenter incorporates critical thinking and Internet sleuthing skills into assignments that teach online nutrition students how to become savvier Internet healthcare consumers. Over several different assignments college, nutrition students practice evaluating online articles and finding reliable, evidence-based information using QUICK reviews and checklists.
During this general session participants will learn about a QUICK review that can be rapidly used to check websites for reliability and two checklists that can be applied to more thoroughly evaluate online websites and resources. Participants will be invited to share their own experiences teaching in this era of fake news and ideas for discerning fact from fiction.
Kirsti Dyer, Columbia College, Sonora, California, USADr. Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS, FT is a physician, health educator, professor, online instructor, lecturer and author. Dr. Dyer received her medical and master’s degrees from the University of California, Davis. After having her two daughters, her professional focus shifted from clinical practice to education, integrative medicine, and health promotion.
Dr. Dyer has been teaching Nutrition for Columbia College since January 2005 in the Biological Sciences Department. Her course has been fully online since Fall 2008 first in Blackboard and since Spring 2017 in Canvas. She is in her third year of leading Walking Classes with the Columbia College Community Education Program.
She has been an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Hospice and Palliative Studies Department at Madonna University since 2006. Dr. Dyer has taught an online graduate course in Grieving Family Systems; Trauma, Loss and Grief; Integrative Treatment Modalities in Trauma Loss and the Hospice/End-of-Life section of Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Gerontology Grief. She has also taught several undergraduate courses as part of Essentials in End of Life Care and Hospice and Palliative Studies Certificates.
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