News Literacy - Helping Students and Teachers Decode Fake News

This book provides a resource for educators to develop students news literacy skills.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: Background and Hurdles for Evaluating the News
1. Background
2. Hurdles
PART II: Sources and Terms of Accurate and Fake News
3. Sources
4. Terms and Vocabulary
PART III: Collecting Information in Real and Fake News
5. Obtaining a Sample of Persons or Documents
6. Instruments Used to Collect Information
7. Types of Information
8. Analyzing Information
9. Interpreting Information
10. Promises or Recommendations
PART IV: How Fake News Persuades
11. Techniques of Fake News Communication
12. Fake News about Education
PART V: Preventing Fake News from Spreading
13. Protecting Against Fake News
14. Instructional Activities
15. Recommendations
References
Index

About the author

By Robert W. Janke and Bruce S. Cooper

Summary

This book provides a resource for educators to develop students news literacy skills.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce S Cooper, Bruce S. Cooper, Bruce S. Ph. D Cooper, Cooper Bruce S., Robert W Janke, Robert W. Janke, Robert W. Cooper Janke
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2017
• EAN: 9781475839302
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3930-2
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs, Educational administration and organization, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education