Research like a pro!
SANDTON – Edtechwomen breakfast club hosts an event to aid learners to conduct research.
EdtechWomen, a breakfast club for women transforming education through technology hosted a talk by keynote speaker, Tanya Pampalone.
The topic of the talk was Fake news is infiltrating our children’s studies: how do we lessen it? The talk was held at the Sandton Drive iStore on 24 May.
Pampalone is the managing director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, a Washington DC-based non-profit organisation aimed at supporting investigative journalists all over the world. She has been a journalist for more than two decades, working in Los Angeles, Prague, San Francisco and Johannesburg.
She is a founding partner of the Media Hack Collective, managing director of Maverick magazine and head of strategic partnerships for The Conversation Africa, and is the former executive editor of the Mail & Guardian.
As a mother of a teenager, Pampalone would often see her daughter doing homework and realised some of the mistakes that learners tend to make when doing research. “Our kids are always on the net and it is important that they know how to properly conduct research,” she said.
“I decided to give a presentation at her school and teach them how to conduct research like journalists, the steps they needed to take and to know when a source is fake.” She shared the presentation with the audience.
Pampalone first defined fake news as false information that is designed to masquerade as news reports. On every page of her slide show, she cited her sources and stressed that it was the most important thing to do when conducting research and even more important to cite from reliable ones. She included various examples and asked the audience to spot fake and real news.
“A fake site usually mimics that of a reliable site, for example, instead of TimesLIVE they’ll use TimezLIVE. So be very careful,” she advised.
Attendees, Ntsako Mhlanga and Cloudy Mokomane said they found the talk informative. “I think we are now clued up. We now know how to thoroughly do fact-checking,” said Mhlanga.
“I really enjoyed her talk. It was insightful,” added Mokomane
The audience enjoyed breakfast afterwards and were given a platform to engage with the speaker.
A raffle was also held and the winners won a few items including copies of Pampalone’s book I Want To Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis.
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