News literacy [electronic resource] : the keys to combating fake news / Michelle Luhtala and Jacquelyn Whiting.

"The focus on fake news, "alternative facts," and general media mendacity distracts us from a very real educational challenge: teaching students the skills and dispositions that make them careful and thorough researchers. This is hard work, nd there are no easy recipes to facilitate the process. How...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Luhtala, Michelle (Author)
Whiting, Jacquelyn (Author)
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO-LLC, [2018]
Subjects:
Information literacy.
Fake news.
Mass media > Objectivity.
Electronic information resource literacy.
Internet literacy.
Press > Influence.
Media literacy > Study and teaching.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
News Literacy: The Keys to Combating Fake News
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction to news literacy
  • A brief history of disinformation
  • What the research says about students' media literacy
  • Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and likes, oh my!
  • The stages of research : a model
  • Lessons for developing information literacy
  • Developing research questions
  • Overcoming student resistance to close reading
  • Citations are a tool for source evaluation
  • Big takeaways
  • Longer unit of study
  • Rubrics.