WHAT I CAN DO

1. Receiving information online nowadays can be tricky especially with the topic on COVID-19.
When dealing with such situation, the most important and only way to confirm the information
is to visit the official website and social media accounts of the World Health Organization. They
post and release articles on the updates and researches on the present pandemic. Receiving
without clarifying such information can be a potential hazard not only for you who received it,
but for those whom you will relay the information to.
2. When posting Facebook status stating our opinion and biases regarding issues in the society, we
can always choose and limit the privacy setting as to who can only see/read our post. Facebook
is a platform for expressing our opinions and insights to some issues, and even just to give
updates about our lives. Whenever a friend/acquaintance comments against my opinions, like
for example, the shutdown of ABS-CBN, it is fine with me. Everyone is entitled to have different
views regarding the matter as long as it is a healthy discussion where everyone can gain
knowledge of the issue. But, once the conversation gets rough and they start attacking me
instead of the issue, I guess that’s the time I will stop responding to them.
3. If asked for a copy of a video scandal circulating in social media, I won’t send my schoolmate a
copy. I won’t even save a copy of such video. It is because it is a form of bullying, wherein we
spread malicious and shameful record of other people.
4. Perhaps, the internet is the easiest ways, nowadays, to find RRLs especially that research papers
are quite a challenge. If I find a bunch of article and information that can be used as RRLs in my
research, I will choose the ones which are essential to the study. Pinpoint the needed
information and discard the others that may lengthen the research and may cause to branch out
to more irrelevant topic. I will also verify the credibility of the website itself, just to clarify if it
convey authentic and truthful data. Of course, I will put the needed citations to prevent
plagiarism.
5. Fake news are widespread in the internet. To prevent such thing, we need to verify the validity
of information we share online. And to do that, before sharing posts we see online, we need to
check first if the link has a legitimate source, like a first or second-hand witness/source of their
article. Sometimes, they include photos as the basis of the headline. Clarify these photos as well,
if they have the proper ownership of the picture or they are just cropped photos from a
different news. We cannot accept information from hearsays and so, because it may become
gossip/fake news if it has no basis.

ACTIVITY 3.4

1. In this illustration, a student is furious because he got F on, perhaps, his homework. According
to the student, he copied everything straight from the internet. The problem with copying
“everything” from the internet is that not everything on the internet are facts. We can get
information and data from the internet but make sure to filter the ones with factual basis. We
cannot just CTRL+V then CTRL+C something on the internet just because we read a part of it
which contains the potential answer to our homework. We should always choose which ones to
copy and the ones to just disregard.
2. A guy on the second illustration tells a professor that he is wrong with what his doing/writing on
the board just because he read on twitter that some random guy say so. We cannot always
believe what our eyes read/see on the internet. It is sometimes useful to use the internet, but
sometimes it is also misleading. We cannot immediately tell someone they’re right or wrong by
just solely basing on what we see on social media. We have to verify if the post is true or
correct, or it just intends to discredit someone of their work. Clarification and further
confirmation are what we need in this digital era where everything can be falsified and mislead
people.