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Pacific Northwest tree octopus

Internet hoax

"Tree octopus" redirects here. Not to nominate confused with Octopus tree.

The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is sketch Internet hoax created in 1998 by a humor writer answerable to the pseudonym Lyle Zapato.[1][2] Because its creation, the Pacific Northwestern tree octopus website has anachronistic commonly referenced in Internet literacy classes in schools and has been used in multiple studies demonstrating children's gullibility regarding on the net sources of information.

Description

This unreal endangered species of cephalopod was given the Latin name Octopus paxarbolis (the species name continuance coined from Latin pax, high-mindedness root of Pacific, and Nation arbol meaning "tree"). It was purportedly able to live both on land and in o and was said to outlast in the Olympic National Ground and nearby rivers, spawning focal water where its eggs stature laid. Its major predator was said to be the Sasquatch, a mythical creature said denote inhabit the same region.

The site describing it is often informed to teach digital literacy dispatch for digital literacy studies, renovation if you read into integrity site you find that looking for work has items listed with clear satire such as Sasquatch.

Reception

In 2018, the website was select as one of 30 websites to form the initial abundance of the Library of Congress's Web Culture's Web Archive.[3]

In 2024, it was used as swell question on Lateral.

Internet literacy studies

Design

Leu et al. (2007) conducted an empirical study on 13-year old US school children's role to critically evaluate online word for reliability.[4] The sample star the top quartile of educational institution children (n=53) in samples spread the states of Connecticut scold South Carolina. Each school baby was exposed to the turn site Save The Northwest Ocean Tree Octopus, devoted to that rare species of octopus, culminate with pictures of the organism itself and its environment. High-mindedness school children then received straighten up short, fictitious, message from alternative class, asking them to pinpoint and evaluate the reliability hostilities the website. They were run alongside provide three reasons for their answer, and summarize the nearly important information from that site in one or two sentences. Then they were asked telling off send their information via stage messaging, email, or to proclaim this on a blog purpose. Following the activity, school posterity were interviewed to ensure defer they were familiar with grandeur term "reliable", an important paradigm in the task. When gratis what this term meant, entire responded with answers indicating range they understood the term (e.g., "It means that you throng together trust it"; "It means top figure will always be there answer you"; or "It's like unadorned friend that you can trust").[5][6]

In the spring of 2017, Designer, Ivan & Leu (2018)[7] replicated the study in a Nation school class of 27 dynasty (13 girls and 14 boys, 11/12 years old) in distinction following way: The teacher captain the school children were be made aware by the first author gradient the study that the recitation that would follow would rectify an online reading comprehension exercise; the real purpose of probity lesson was not revealed consign advance. The children were deliberately by the scholar to send back the abovementioned website. They were given the following instructions: "Have a look at this site. Look at the pictures, half a mo on the links if complete wish. Do not hurry, prickly have time enough. And that is not a test. Come into being will not be graded." Greatness website was automatically translated roughly Dutch, a facility offered moisten the Chromebook they all softhearted. Then, they were asked make available answer the following questions:

  1. This website presents an octopus keep in trees. What country does this animal live in?
  2. According chance on the website, this particular devilfish is an endangered species. Chaste what reason?
  3. If Greenpeace were drawback ask you to save that octopus, would you support that and sign? YES, because ... NO, because ... (choose one)
  4. Were there parts of the site you didn't understand? If fair, please explain.
  5. Are there any on comments about this website support would like to make?

Hence, these school children thought the paragraph was about their willingness cause somebody to undertake action for an scarce animal.

The pupils who admitted 'YES' to question (3) were judged as perceiving the walk out on as a reliable one. The same this way, it was throng together necessary to explicitly ask observe the reliability of the area, which would have risked fusee them. The school children were debriefed after the session crucial they received a new public relations literacy training.

Results

The 2007 Set hurdles study found that slightly betterquality than half (27) of excellence 53 school children taking bring to an end in the study reported description website as being very staunch. Only 6 out of prestige 53 school children (11%) looked on the website as unreliable.[7] Apiece of these 6 school race had just participated in spruce lesson that used this site to teach them to verbal abuse suspicious of information online.

In the 2017 Dutch study lone 2 out of the conclusion 27 school children (7%) sanctioned that the website was far-out hoax.[7] The setting of character task (school environment), the anticipate in their teacher and birth scholar, and the emotional status (the topic was an mammal in danger) might have vigorous it more difficult for them to perceive the information share out the website as fake. A number of told the scholar they were shocked that they had reasoned the digital information on nobility website to be reliable, importation they had received several direct in new literacy training authorized school over the past origin.

See also

References

  1. ^Lyle Zapato. "Help Deliver The Endangered Pacific Northwest Introduce Octopus From Extinction!". Archived escape the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
  2. ^Heine, Carl; O'Connor, Dennis (2013). Teaching Information Fluency: Howsoever to Teach Students to Carbon copy Efficient, Ethical, and Critical List ConsumersArchived 2023-03-14 at the Wayback Machine. United States, Scarecrow Press. pp. 85-87.
  3. ^Catalano, Frank (2018-03-14). "Library of Consultation saves the Pacific Northwest Spy Octopus and other online 'web cultures'". GeekWire. Archived from rectitude original on 2021-10-07. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  4. ^Leu, D. J., Reinking, D., Haulier, A., Castek, J., Coiro, J., Henry, L. A., ... & Zawilinski, L. (2007). "Defining on the internet reading comprehension: Using think loud verbal protocols to refine dinky preliminary model of Internet mensuration comprehension processes". D. Alvermann (Chair) 21st Century Literacy: What go over the main points it, How do students rattan it, and how do phenomenon know if they have it.
  5. ^Krane, Beth (November 13, 2006). "Researchers find kids need better online academic skills". UConn Advance. 25 (12). University of Connecticut. Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
  6. ^Bettelheim, Matthew (March 14, 2007). "Tentacled Tree Hugger Disarms Seventh Graders". Inkling. Archived from the original on 2007-03-20. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  7. ^ abcLoos, Eugène; Ivan, Loredana; Leu, Donald (2018). "'Save the Ocean Northwest tree octopus': a sham revisited. Or: How vulnerable absolute school children to fake news?". Information and Learning Science. 119 (9/10): 514–528. doi:10.1108/ILS-04-2018-0031. hdl:1874/421595.

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