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Fake News and Our Students

1/13/2018

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It all started out with Wiki, kids could edit information and "mess up" quality information.  To Wiki's credit and user ship, I rarely find bad information in my search for science teacher content.  Now making false, misleading and many times funny news account is a common practice.  A school custodian once told me that they were going to close route 90 near lake Erie/Buffalo because there was too much snow.  It would be closed for two months till spring, I had to be the bearer of bad news and explain that they fell for fake news. 

​ Thankfully this creates teachable moments for us in the classroom.  Now we can look for opportunities to teach our students how to be more critical and understand bias in news media.  Our guest poster Jeremy from LearningEdTeach recently did a tech tip about "Factitious" an online tool to help us better teach about fake news.  Check it out below.  

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