news literacy

Providing the right tools for young news consumers will help them learn how to spot fake news; how to tell the difference between ads, blogs and news reports; and how to draw their own informed conclusions.

I had a writing class that turned into a heated discussion about how we categorized “fake news.” No matter how many articles we read — How to Identify Fake News, or What Makes an Article Credible? — when we could not come up with one straight answer, I realized the problem was much bigger.