News literacy

Description:

"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, and there are no easy recipes to facilitate the process. However, with carefully scaffolded lessons that nurture students to become increasingly savvy inquirers, readers, and writers, librarians and content area educators can help students meet these challenges and become informed, active citizens"--

subjects: Fake news,  Electronic information resource literacy,  Internet literacy,  Influence,  Media literacy,  Study and teaching,  Mass media,  Press,  Information literacy,  Objectivity