News Literacy: Fake News In The News

December 2016 article from The New York Times explores the problems of fake news are causing more readers to doubt everything, including real news.

TedTalk from Eli Pariser which examines the effects of personalized searches and online "filter bubbles."

College students Anant Goel, Nabanita De, Qinglin Chen and Mark Craft created a Chrome extension to help combat the spread of fake news.

A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined.

Cameron Harris created a fake story about an electrical worker who stumbled upon stacked boxes of ballots pre-marked for Hillary Clinton. This is how it happened.

Lesson plan from The Poynter Institute with accompanying video.

Blog post and lesson idea from KQED News.

Blog post from AASL's Knowledge Quest.

Interview with Professor Nicole A. Cooke of the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences.

Lesson plan from C-SPAN classroom.

Blog post from Knowledge Quest, the journal of the American Association of School Librarians.

Article from NPR discussing 2016 Stanford study on students and information literacy.

Post by Joyce Valenza in School Library Journal on teaching news and information literacy.

Blog post from NEA Today.

Article from EdWeek discussing 2016 Stanford study on student information literacy skills.

While many social media sites are trying to stop the spread, Maine educators are stepping up, too, helping students differentiate between fact and fiction.