Digital Citizenship: Real News vs Fake News
A recent study by Stanford University found an overwhelming majority of students were not able to tell the difference between so-called fake news and real news. Part of the solution involves providing students with the media literacy skills they need to evaluate sources, including social media. Students will explore the problems with fake news and gain confidence exploring the media that they come across every day.
Lesson Created By: AmandaBoyd
Essential Question
How do you know if a news source is reliable?
Lesson Progression
1. Explore:
How do you know if a news story, viral video or even photographs are real or fake? Take a look at the 2 videos provided to see how videos can look so real, yet be so fake.
2. Explain:
Take notes from the NY Times opening video and any other helpful information from the article that will help you decipher between real and fake news.
- What is the most interesting thing you learned from reading this article or any of the articles found linked within this article?
NY Times - How the pig came to save the goat
Take a look at this video to see how videos can look so real, yet be so fake.
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Take a look at this video to see how videos can look so real, yet be so fake.
View ResourceSkills and Strategies | Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources
Take notes from the opening video and any other helpful information from the article that will help you decipher between real and fake news.
What is the most interesting thing you learned from reading this article or any of the articles found linked within this article?
Standards
Assessments
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/skills-practice-distinguishing-between-fact-and-opinion/
Choose an article under the YOUR TASK section and decipher what you believe to be fact vs. opinion. Create a table in a Google Doc that has a column for facts and a column for opinions. Copy and paste various sentences into each column.