(2017-05-10) Caulfield Autoannotating News Articles To Scaffold Media Literacy Skills In Students

Mike Caulfield: Auto-Annotating News Articles To Scaffold Media Literacy Skills In Students. I compiled a list of over 150 known front groups — groups that present as social activism groups, but are thought to be industry-funded astroturf. (annotation system)

My code doesn’t annotate in real time. It runs as a “batch” process overnight, goes and tries to find new articles mentioning front groups, and has new pages annotated for the general public when you wake up.

The byline identifies the author as chair of Americans for Medical Progress

we’ve already pre-annotated this using our Hypothes.is-based bot

It provides the sort of scaffolding and direction that students may need in this area while still allowing students to do authentic, public work.