Fighting Fake News : Teaching Students to Identify and Interrogate Information Pollution - Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

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Fighting Fake News

Teaching Students to Identify and Interrogate Information Pollution

By: Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Michael W. Smith, Hugh Kesson, Deborah Appleman

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Paperback | 2 October 2023

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264 Pages

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Fake news, false and distorted news material; is nothing new. It's been a part of media history long before the advent of social media. But with the speed and reach that powerful digital technology and social media provide, information pollution has spread like wildfire in our rapidly changing world.

Now more than ever, students need to develop their critical reading and thinking skills. This extensively researched book will provide educators in all subject areas and grade levels, the tools and lessons to:

help learners become highly competent critical readers of all kinds of texts, and critical consumers of data
help students recognize, interrogate, and responsibly deal with fake news, the New Propaganda or information pollution
help learners understand how these kinds of mis-, dis- and mal-information work and how they are powerfully tailored, curated, and disseminated to them in highly targeted and manipulative ways by artificial intelligence (AI) and social media
help learners understand how these kinds of mis-, dis- and mal-information work and how they are powerfully tailored, curated, and disseminated to them in highly targeted and manipulative ways by artificial intelligence (AI) and social media
and help to recognize and fight ungrounded skepticism: the ignorance or dismissal of established, credible data from across reliable sources, including the pretense that science does not exist or that established scientific findings can be roundly discounted.

Industry Reviews

"If I were in charge of the world, every school would have a required media studies course, and every faculty would do a book study around Fighting Fake News. This book is an essential tool in helping students to be more consciously aware, reflective, and rational about the waves of news and other forms of "angertainment." I lost count of how many times I said, 'Yes!' while reading this book." -- Kelly Gallagher * Teacher, Author, and Consultant * "Fighting Fake News is a must read for every teacher. I plan to read it and reread because I know each time, I will be able to glean better information. I would love to have the opportunity to see this kind of instruction be put in to place." -- Lydia Bagley * Instructional Support Specialist * "Talk about timely! Fighting Fake News begins by describing the cognitive short-cuts we all (not just the fringe) are prone to-how we so easily fit information to pre-existing biases. The authors show how digital media exploit this tendency by directing us to sources that feed these prejudices. And they provide carefully crafted lessons to promote critical analysis and thoughtful citizenship. It's the book we need now." -- Thomas Newkirk * Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire *

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