Fake News
2020 Guide To Teach Students How To Research & Avoid Fake News, Disinformation, And Misinformation
Based on my popular presentation titled "Teaching Students To Become Expert Researchers And Avoid Fake News, Disinformation, and Misinformation" this video will provide you with the resources needed to teach your students everything they need to know to become efficient and effective researchers. This video uses a fun and humorous approach to help students understand… learn more
Build News Literacy Skills with iCivics
Strong media literacy skills are more essential than ever. Students engage with a plethora of media sources every day; sharpening news literacy skills helps students develop the critical thinking skills needed to evaluate the reliability and credibility of information and sources. learn more
Education - Detecting Fake News for K-12 Educators
This Research Guide provides Lesson Plans and Activities for learning about fake news in Math, Science, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and News Literacy. learn more
Fake News: 4 quick checks
Not everything we see online is truthful, but it can be hard to tell the difference between fact and fiction. To help, we’ve put together a few quick tips for young people to help them distinguish between the two when reading articles online: learn more
How to choose your news
TedED. How do we choose which news to consume? Get the scoop on how opinions and facts affect the news and how to tell them apart. learn more
How to Spot Fake News
Fake news is information posing as news, which has not been verified and is not true. It could be clickbait, rumours, hoaxes, propaganda, or satire. Today fake news is overwhelmingly web-driven. Ten Questions for Fake News Detection from The News Literacy Project's Checkology Virtual Classroom learn more
How to spot fake screenshots on social media
PBS Newsletter Classroom. Fake social media generator websites have made it easy to impersonate a person or business and spread misinformation.Students will learn four clues that a social media screenshot might be fake and use some online tools that can help verify them — and then put those skills to the test. November 17, 2022 learn more
Lesson plan: How to spot fake screenshots on social media
Students will learn four clues that help identify fake social media screenshots. Students will be able to explain why posts that impersonate people or organizations make them more likely to spread misinformation. Students will then put these fact-checking techniques to the test. learn more
Real News vs. Fake News
For more videos in this series, see our Citizen Literacy toolkit: https://library.louisville.edu/citize... learn more