I Found It On the Internet, It Must Be True: Fact vs. Opinion for Middle School Students
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How to Spot Fake News: High School Lesson Plan
How to Spot Fake News helps high school students develop critical judgment skills to assess news sources.
Using national and local news articles and videos, critical discussion and games, students learn how to identify fake news.
Small-Town Librarian Creates Community Newspaper
Librarians have always been seen as great sources for information. So when the quarterly community newspaper of Weare, a small New Hampshire town 70 miles outside Boston, closed in 2016, the residents looked to Weare Public Library Director Mike Sullivan for a solution.
Kindergarten and Media Literacy: Using PBS' 'Arthur' to Start the Conversation
Information literacy skills are a cornerstone to school library instruction. Teacher librarians have taught them for years. Why revisit them now? Before we get into how to use "Arthur" to teach media literacy, we thought it might be nice to give you a little background on why our passion for information literacy programming in school libraries was re-energized and renewed.
