Fake News?

If you are teaching about bias and fake news with your students you may want to have them look into this Chrome extension.  According to their site, “your first step in the fight against fake news. Trusted News uses independent, transparent, and neutral sources to assess news sites. We aim to help you cast a more critical eye over the news by rating for fake, questionable or trustworthy news. Using a simple notification system, the extension flags the trustworthiness of the site. Check at-a-glance if a site is reputable or not. Trusted News also highlights satirical and user-generated content.”  To see the site to get the extension, click  here.  To see other posts I have put out on fake news (alternate facts) click here.  You may also want to look at the collection of sites put together by Glen Wiebe on Fake News by clicking here.