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Fake News
How to sort fact from fiction: Evaluating sources for trustworthiness
This document provides teaching materials on media literacy.
The Problem with Fake News (and how our students can solve it)
John Spencer describes himself as "a former middle school teacher and current college professor on a quest to transform schools into bastions of creativity and wonder." His focus is on design thinking and how this can change the way teachers and students approach education. Read more at his website.
CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments) is an open access resource for faculty and librarians. This particular lesson, entitled "Evaluating news sites: Credible or Clickbait?" teaches students how to evaluate if a news site is reliable.
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Training) is a program of the California State University System. Membership is free and members can submit materials which go through extensive peer review. This collection of materials is about fake news and finding and evaluating credible sources.
