The first module, “Fake News, Fake Science, and Critical Thinking. What Should I Believe?” started on June 12. of the online summer school of the University of Liverpool, which takes place within the framework of partnerships with Sumy State University and provides the opportunity for free participation (offline and online) in the International Summer School for our students, graduate students, and teachers.
This module aims to inform students how fake news and fake science spread on social media and to learn essential new digital techniques for evaluating and verifying sources. It provides a methodology by which the module students can distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources of information and provides a toolkit for critical thinking.
Academic and Research Institute of Law students Andriy Kasyan, Maryna Gaidar, Diana Prepelitsa, and Viktoriіya Sagaydak study at the Summer School. Ph.D. students Olena Tymoshenko and Serhiy Tsukan and teachers Oleksandr Ilchenko, Tetyana Kobzeva, Yevheniya Mykhaylovska, Maria Plotnikova, Olga Bondarenko, Alina Goncharova.
Training will last until June 30. And from July 3 to July 21, the second module, “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global challenges, local action, achieved results,” will be held, in which representatives of the Institute of Law will also participate.
