News Literacy

Helping Students and Teachers Decode Fake News

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvRobert W. Janke,Bruce S. Cooper

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Our society faces international challenges from cyber attacks and dissemination of fake news with a goal to destabilize our society. Fake news can be used as a weapon with destructive effects as powerful as any military attack. Fake news can spread as fast as a wildfire carried on the winds of social media. Students and all citizens need to be prepared and informed of ways to quickly understand and distinguish real and fake news. Preventing the potential destructive effects of fake news is the purpose of this book. The focus is upon providing a resource for educators to develop “news literacy” skills of students in objectively evaluating the news.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-10-11
Mått153 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt245 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor170
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781475839302

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Robert W. Janke is professor of education at Baldwin Wallace University with almost 50 years of experience as a teacher, psychologist, and professor. He received a PhD from the University of Michigan.Bruce S. Cooper is professor emeritus in education leadership, administration, and policy at Fordham University. He receive a PhD from the University of Chicago and has published over forty books on policy, finance, leadership, and school improvement.

Preface Acknowledgments PART I: Background and Hurdles for Evaluating the News 1. Background 2. Hurdles PART II: Sources and Terms of Accurate and Fake News 3. Sources 4. Terms and Vocabulary PART III: Collecting Information in Real and Fake News 5. Obtaining a Sample of Persons or Documents 6. Instruments Used to Collect Information 7. Types of Information 8. Analyzing Information 9. Interpreting Information 10. Promises or Recommendations PART IV: How Fake News Persuades11. Techniques of Fake News Communication 12. Fake News about Education PART V: Preventing Fake News from Spreading13. Protecting Against Fake News 14. Instructional Activities15. Recommendations ReferencesIndex

Is there a subject that we need to study as urgently as the matter of what is, and is not, fake news? Social media have provided a platform for the dissemination and absorption of untruths in a way our ancestors could not have dreamed of—with what now looks like grotesques implications for societal progress, citizenship, and the social contract. Janke and Cooper could not be writing at a better time and their excellent and very readable exploration of this topic should be on every teacher’s (and teacher trainer’s) reading list.