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Fake News
Guide developed by HACC Librarians with input from HACC Communications and English Faculty
How news-literate are you? Test and sharpen your news literacy skills with short activities, engaging quizzes and shareable graphics for learners of all ages.
Helping Students Identify Fake News Video
John Spencer describes himself as "a former middle school teacher and current college professor on a quest to transform schools into bastions of creativity and wonder." His focus is on design thinking and how this can change the way teachers and students approach education.
CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments) is an open access resource for faculty and librarians. This particular lesson, entitled "Pin the Source on the Spectrum: Fake News is on a Continuum" has students determine the credibility of news sources.
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Training) is a program of the California State University System. Membership is free and members can submit materials which go through extensive peer review. This collection of materials is about fake news and finding and evaluating credible sources.
Evaluating where information comes from is a crucial part of deciding whether it is trustworthy. By observing fact checkers, we found that the best way to learn about a website is lateral reading—leaving a site to see what other digital sources say about it.