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Fighting Fake News

Teaching Students to Identify and Interrogate Information Pollution

We all know texting while driving is dangerous. But what about when students get on the digital highway without critical thinking skills? Use Fighting Fake News to steer them toward a life of wisdom, not reactivity.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781071854655
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: Corwin Literacy
  • Year: 2023
  • Page Count: 264
  • Publication date: February 17, 2023

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Texting while driving is dangerous; but so is sending our students on the digital highway without critical thinking skills.

Critical thinking and online reading need to go hand in hand—but they often don’t. Students click, swipe, and believe because they don’t know how to do otherwise. At times, so do we. And that’s a problem. Fighting Fake News combats this challenge by helping you model how to read, myth-bust, truth-test, and respond in ways that lead to wisdom rather than reactivity.

No matter what content you teach, the lessons showcased here provide engaging, collaborative reading and discussion experiences so students can:

  • Notice how teacher and peers read digital content, to be mindful of how various reading pathways influence perception
  • Identify the author background, the website sponsor, and other evidence that help set a piece in context
  • Stress-test the facts by evaluating news sources, reading laterally, and other critical reading strategies
  • Use “Reader’s Rules of Notice” to learn to identify common rhetorical devices used to influence the reader
  • Be aware of how for-profit social media platforms feed on our responses to narrow rather than widen our reading landscape

We are still in the wild west era of the digital age, scrambling to impart a safer, ethical framework for evaluating information. Thankfully, it distills to one mission: teach students (and ourselves) how to think critically, and we will forever have the tools to fight fake news.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

A classroom teacher for fifteen years, ?Jeffrey D. Wilhelm? is currently Professor of English Education at Boise State University. He works in local schools as part of a Virtual Professional Development Site Network sponsored by the Boise State Writing Project, and regularly teaches middle and high school students. Jeff is the founding director of the Maine Writing Project and the Boise State Writing Project.
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Michael W. Smith

Michael W. Smith, a professor in Temple University's College of Education, joined the ranks of college teachers after eleven years of teaching high school English. His research focuses on understanding both how adolescents and adults engage with texts outside school and how teachers can use those understandings to devise more motivating and effective instruction inside schools.
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Hugh Kesson

Hugh Kesson trained as a high school teacher in London and has since worked in a variety of educational roles and settings in the UK, US, and Australia. He earned his PhD at Temple University’s College of Education where his doctoral work investigated the influences of digital technologies on reading and reading instruction. Hugh's writing has appeared in English Teaching: Practice & Critique.
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Deborah Appleman

Deborah Appleman is Professor of Educational Studies and Director of the Summer Writing Program at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Her primary interests include adolescent response to literature, multicultural literature, and the teaching of literary theory to high school students. A high school English teacher for nine years, Deborah works weekly in urban and suburban high schools.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Part 1: So Much at Stake


Chapter 1: The Case for Teaching Critical Reading and Fighting Fake News

Chapter 2: Fake News: What It Is, Why it Works, and What We Can Start Doing About It

Part II: Lessons for Critical Reading and Fighting Fake News


Chapter 3: Lessons for Getting Started: Knowing Your Own Mind

Chapter 4: Lessons Using ‘Rules of Notice’ in Online Reading

Chapter 5: Lessons for Teaching Point of View in Digital Media

Chapter 6: Lessons for Examining News, Nonfiction, and Digital Texts through Literary Lenses

Chapter 7: Lessons for Teaching Students to Evaluate Evidence and Research

Conclusion: Some Final Words

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