![]() "Of the 25 seventh-graders identified as their schools’ best online readers, 24 recommended this bogus website to another class that Leu had told them was also researching endangered species.". "Tentacled tree hugger disarms seventh graders". Then on Halloween say 'Trick-or-treat for Tree Octopus' and ask your neighbors for candy corn or shrimp. Zapato created this website about the fake tree octopus to show how important it is to think carefully about whether things on the Internet are true or not. Now you can help tree octopuses get their favorite Halloween treats: candy corn and shrimp Just download and assemble the special box. Zapatos website says the tree octopus is real, and that it lives on both land and water. ↑ Matthew Bettelheim (March 14, 2007). The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is a fake animal created in 1998 by Lyle Zapato."Don Leu, Chair in Literacy and Technology at UConn, "All 25 students fell for the Internet hoax.anyone can publish anything on the Internet, and today's students are not prepared to critically evaluate the information they find there".". UComm Advance ( University of Connecticut) 25 (12). The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by a humor writer under the pseudonym Lyle Zapato. "Researchers find kids need better online academic skills". The Tree Octopus is thought to have originated in the roots of Puget Sound, and that is where its reproductive cycle began. The website claimed that the tree octopuses were amphibious, spending only their early life and their mating season in their ancestral aquatic environment. It is well made, has pictures of octopus hats and traveling sideshow exhibits. Many of the children in years 5 and 6 were rather shocked to find out that the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus that we started learning about last week is. The octopus, or Octopus Paxarbolis as it was called, was allegedly found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula. ![]() Although for most, this web site is obviously fake, the problem is that it is very convincing. The site talks about sasquatches and being infected with black helicopters. ↑ "Help Save The Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus From Extinction!". This story is clearly fake news because the Pacific Northwest tree octopus doesn’t even exist. ![]()
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