Interesting articles concerning fake news
Useful resources
https://fullfact.org for separating fact from fiction (UK-centred) and…
… https://fullfact.org/toolkit/#factchecking-the-internet for very useful set of how-to articles about to detect fake images, headlines and other aspects of news.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com for checking the mainstream media for left- or right-wing bias, conspiracy theory peddlers, or satire.
https://www.factcheck.org/the-factcheck-wire/ for examining the truth behind the headlines (very US-centric)
A generic activity for teaching about fake news - a hand-drawn infographic from me. Why not use this in conjunction with Danny Nicholson's fake websites collection (below)?
Look out for my fake news lesson plan, and a book review about fake news, in the October issue of Teach Secondary (out around 18 October 2019).
Newsguard is a website evaluation scheme that helps you decide whether or not a website is trustworthy as far as news reporting is concerned. See my review below.
Newswise is a free cross-curricular news literacy project for 9-11 year-olds. See Danny Nicholson's article: Become fake news detectives with Newswise.
Also from Danny Nicholson: test your students' critical literacy skills with these fake websites.
Here's an online game/simulation to demonstrate how misinformation spreads on the internet. Contrary to what you might think, it does not require a majority verdict so to speak: Crowds.
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