Teaching about digital literacy is so important, in any grade or age level. Teaching students that not everything they see on the internet is true is major. Getting students to read part of or some of this book. can help such as getting students to check their emotions when reading news or other “facts” on the internet. This can usually be helpful. When something feels too good to be true, it usually is.
This website is also beneficial because it gives facts on what fake news is and how to spot it. There are different types of fake news such as clickbait, sponsored content and fabricated journalism. Who knew there could be so many different kinds of fake news? Even I didn’t. That’s why it is so important to educate our students on this matter.
This book looks wonderful because it includes different lessons to teach your students with. What could be better than that?? Having lesson resources is always beneficial to a teacher. This book includes lessons tying fake news in to science, math and English. I think this book is a hole in one!!!
To include the NTCE framework in my future classroom, I find that it is important that all students have access to the information that they need to complete assignments. If they do not have access to this information, then it will hinder the student’s success in school. Internet resources should be used responsibly and respectfully amongst all students and teachers. Students having access to inappropriate websites such as social media, etc. is not a necessity in the classroom.
I think you could tie any subject, specifically I’m looking at grade 5 because I think that’s the age group that I am interested in teaching to fake news. In Health Education, you could do an activity such as giving the students a fake article or fake video and having them look for the inconsistencies in it and then teach them the importance of not everything that you see is true on the internet.
Thank you for leaving the libguides webpage as a resource for teaching how to spot real or fake news. With the way technoloy and the internet is moving I feel there is going to be a large importance for students needing to know what is fake and what is real. If we think about the evolution of technology old school pen and paper is starting to be something foreign. However, because of this we need to also adapt in how we search, find, and present information.