It’s more important than ever to teach kids how to read news critically. During this panel at ISTE18, we discussed strategies for evaluating online resources and media fluency to make sure students know which sources to trust, and which to reject. We talked about fake articles, fake photos, and fake videos.
Here are lots of resources to bring this to your school:
- Are ‘Mutated’ Daisies Really Caused by Fukushima Radiation?
- Computer Scientists Demonstrate The Potential For Faking Video
- Students Have ‘Dismaying’ Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds
- How does your favorite news source rate on the ‘truthiness’ scale?
- Radiolab podcast episode Breaking News, on fake audio and fake video
- Scott Bedley’s Research Communities Learning Structure
- Common Sense Media’s Educator Toolkit for News & Media Literacy
- Vicki Davis’ Edutopia article What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship
- 3,500 curated social media advertisements used as propaganda
