“Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the internet can be summed up in one word: bleak.”
--Stanford History Education Group
In a recent study at Stanford, it was found that a majority of young people cannot distinguish fake news from real news. Specifically, 80% of middle schoolers cannot tell the difference between a sponsored ad and news content. Most college students could not detect bias from an activist tweet nor could tell the difference between a fringe source and a mainstream media source. The fake news pandemic is spreading and it is up to educators to teach the important skills of news literacy to our students. This website is meant to be a toolkit for educators to use in teaching news literacy. You will find lesson plans, rubrics, and other resources to help you fight the fake news beast!