5 Ways Teachers Are Fighting Fake News
- Feb 19, 2017
- 1 min read
Scott Bedley, fifth-grade teacher at Plaza Vista School in Irvine, Calif., says he's been trying to teach his students for a while to look carefully at what they're reading and where it comes from.
He's got a seven-point checklist his students can follow:
1. Do you know who the source is, or was it created by a common or well-known source? Example National Geographic, Discovery, etc. 2. How does it compare to what you already know? 3. Does the information make sense? Do you understand the information? 4. Can you verify that the information agrees with three or more other sources that are also reliable? 5. Have experts in the field been connected to it or authored the information? 6. How current is the information? 7. Does it have a copyright?
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