Fighting Fake News! Teaching Critical Thinking and Media Literacy in a Digital Age

Name: Fighting Fake News! Teaching Critical Thinking and Media Literacy in a Digital Age
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781618217288
Price: 56.99 NZD
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Grades 4-6

By Brian Housand

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Fighting Fake News! equips educators and students with critical thinking and media literacy tools to navigate the overwhelming flow of information in digital spaces. It offers practical lessons and activities to help users critically evaluate social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and more, fostering skills to identify reliable news and avoid misinformation.
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This book is essential for teachers, educators, and students aiming to strengthen their critical thinking and media literacy skills amid today’s digital information landscape.

Fighting Fake News! focuses on applying critical thinking skills in digital environments while also helping students and teachers to avoid information overload. With the lessons and activities in this book, students will be challenged to look at the media they encounter daily to learn to deepen and extend their media literacy and critical t

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Fighting Fake News! focuses on applying critical thinking skills in digital environments while also helping students and teachers to avoid information overload. According to a 2016 Pew Research report, we are now living in a world where 62% of people report that they get their "news" from social media. With the lessons and activities in this book, students will be challenged to look at the media they encounter daily (including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, and more) to learn to deepen and extend their media literacy and critical thinking skills. Now more than ever, teachers need the instruction in Fighting Fake News! to teach students how to locate, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate information.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781618217288

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 May 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Prufrock Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 154

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Brian Housand Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Brian C. Housand, Ph.D., is an associate professor, coordinator of the Academically and Intellectually Gifted Program, and recipient of the Max Ray Joyner Award for Outstanding Teaching is Distance Education at East Carolina University.