Marjorie Taylor Greene, disinformation on Ukraine casualties and other news literacy lessons

 

If your students probably could learn a bit about News Literacy and social media disinformation.  To read the article click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

Do you shop online?  Would you like to get money back?  Rakuten is an awesome site that gives you Cash Back when you shop online. With over 750 stores, including Hudson’s Bay, Indigo.ca, Canadian Tire, Walmart, and Sephora, you get paid to shop for things you’re already buying.  Right now get a $30 Cash Bonus credited to your account and mine when you join today and make a $30 purchase within 30 days!  We both win. Payouts are quarterly.  I downloaded their chrome extension button so when I online shop I won't forget to use Rakuten.

Rakuten Canada $30 welcome cash bonus on sign-up.

If you have Textbooks you would like to sell check this website out.  I highly recommend them.  They even pay for the shipping.  I will get a small commission if you use the above link and it will not cost you anything.

Media Literacy: Why Is It Needed More Than Ever?

 

Media Literacy has always been very important when I was teaching in the library but over the last few years things have gone crazy with so much fake news sites, conspiracy theories, social media, etc.  To read the article click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  

Canadian University Students - Get Your 6 Month Free Trial Prime Student Account Here

If you have Textbooks you would like to sell check this website out.  I highly recommend them.  They even pay for the shipping.  I will get a small commission if you use the above link and it will not cost you anything.

News Literacy lessons on Facebook, Marjorie Taylor Greene and more

 

If you are teaching anything to do with online literacy and deciding whether something is fact or fake you should definitely read the article in the Washington Post. The article highlights the New Literacy Project and the website Checkology which "helps educators teach middle and high school students how to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources, and know what to trust, what to dismiss and what to debunk."  To see the article click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.

Canadian University Students - Get Your 6 Month Free Trial Prime Student Account Here

Factitious - Fake News or Alternate Facts

 

I posted about this site back in October 2018 (click here).  They now have a pandemic version of their site.  The website gives a news-story with its source and your job is to decide whether it is real or fake news.  I believe with what is happening south of the border this is very topical.  To see the website click here. 

Evaluating Online Resources

According to their website, "Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world."  To see the website click here.

Fighting Fake News

If you are teaching a course that involves investigating fake news you might want to check out this website created  by Johanna L.  There is plenty of material and links for you.  To see the website click here.

Factitious

If you are teaching fake news in your classroom, here is a simple game that asks students to read an article and then look at the source(s) to decide if it is real or an "alternate fact".  To see the site click here.

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.

Fake News

No I am not going to launch into some Trump bashing but I did want to point out this nice bookmark that Martha M posted on our boards Librarian Conference on Edsby, see below.  Also if you would like to see some of the previous posts on fake news I have posted, click here

.

This timely article on fake news by Scott Bedley talks about how he has his students look at articles found online.  Even though this was his 5th grade class, the information is pertinent for high school students.  To see the article click here.  I have also previously posted on fake news which can be seen by clicking here.

Evaluating a News Article

From Easybib, (they also have a nice article you can see be clicking here).  Also see my previous post on Fake News on February 15 2017 by clicking here.  This infographic and other resources can be found on the Easybib site by clicking here

Alternate Facts = Fake News

Well fake news has been in the .... wait for it ....news quite a bit lately.  If you are discussing this in your current events class you might want to look at this resource by Seneca by clicking here,