Fighting Fake News! Teaching Critical Thinking and Media Literacy in a Digital Age - Grades 4-6

Fighting Fake News! focuses on applying critical thinking skills in digital environments while also helping students and teachers to avoid information overload. With the lessons and activities in this book, students will be challenged to look at the media they encounter daily to learn to deepen and extend their media literacy and critical t

List of contents

The World of Fake News: How Did We Get Here A New Literacies Framework Identifying Important Questions Locating Information Critically Evaluating Information Synthesizing Information Communicating Information Overcoming Your Own Bias The Boss Battle: Fighting Fake News Epilogue: Pay Attention Additional Resources References About the Author

About the author

Brian C. Housand, Ph.D., is an associate professor, coordinator of the Academically and Intellectually Gifted Program, and recipient of the Max Ray Joyner Award for Outstanding Teaching is Distance Education at East Carolina University.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Housand, Brian C. Housand
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781618217288
• ISBN: 978-1-61821-728-8
• No. of pages: 154
• Weight: 280 g
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, Teaching of a specific subject, COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media, Educational: IT and computing, ICT, Educational: IT & computing, ICT, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Science & Technology