Posted on 02/13/2017 7:13:43 AM PST by Hadean
WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. — Teachers from elementary school through college are telling students how to distinguish between factual and fictional news — and why they should care that there's a difference.
As Facebook works with The Associated Press, FactCheck.org and other organizations to curb the spread of fake and misleading news on its influential network, teachers say classroom instruction can play a role in deflating the kind of "Pope endorses Trump " headlines that muddied the waters during the 2016 presidential campaign.
"I think only education can solve this problem," said Pat Winters Lauro, a professor at Kean University in New Jersey who began teaching a course on news literacy this semester.
Like others, Lauro has found discussions of fake news can lead to politically sensitive territory. Some critics believe fake stories targeting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton helped Donald Trump overcome a large deficit in public opinion polls, and President Trump himself has attached the label to various media outlets and unfavorable reports and polls in the first weeks of his presidency.
"It hasn't been a difficult topic to teach in terms of material because there's so much going on out there," Lauro said, "but it's difficult in terms of politics because we have such a divided country and the students are divided, too, on their beliefs. I'm afraid sometimes that they think I'm being political when really I'm just talking about journalistic standards for facts and verification, and they look at it like 'Oh, you're anti-this or -that.'"
A California lawmaker last month introduced a bill to require the state to add lessons on how to distinguish between real and fake news to the grade 7-12 curriculum. High school government and politics teacher Lesley Battaglia added fake news to the usual election-season lessons on primaries and presidential debates..
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Teacher: Students, today we will learn the difference between Fake News and Real News.
Real news ONLY comes from Major News Channels and Major News Papers.
Fake news comes from outside these sources. Got it?
Zombies: Yes Teacher.
This should be easy:
Fake news: NBC, ABC, cBS, pBS, Compost, Slimes, LA-Slimes, Rooters, AP, 50% Foxnews
Not Fake news: 50% Foxnews, Wash Times, FR
Of course, if it is being “taught”, the ‘Fake’ and “not Fake” lists will be swapped.
What about #FakeEducation (aka Common Core)?
And in the 1960s, high school contemporary history textbooks were touting the United Nations as a positive organization. It was leftist diarrhea being spewed as “education” even back then.
The left truly has lost the narrative now. They’ve lost the narrative now. Reputable news does not come from the big 3, nor the 3-letter cable/satellites, nor any of the traditional online rags that come out of their magazines and liberal Necronomicans. It comes from a free internet, and they don’t know how to deal with it. Free dissemination of the truth is their greatest fear.
From the article: “As Facebook works with The Associated Press, FactCheck.org and other organizations to curb the spread of fake and misleading news on its influential network,”
This is just plain stupid. Like the fox & coyotes caring for the chickens.
Fake news has been around since the first printed parchment came off the Gutenburg. More recently, it was called “disinformation”.
Before that, just plain propaganda.
What they want the students to do is to recognize propaganda as fact. Most are ignorant enough to just do that.
Sorting the wheat from the chaff requires extensive background knowledge, which these kids don’t have— I didn’t when I was their age. So, I’m sure they’re going to tell them, “Just trust PolitiFact and Snopes.” Just another level of Fake News.
How about a class on how to avoid a fake education?
Before teachers spend too much valuable time on propaganda about fake news…which is anything Fox or Breitbart says…it would be good to have literate students who could think for themselves.
Fake Education.
Unless the course addresses ‘big media’ [print and broadcast] as major purveyors of fake news, the course is useless.
I hope they overreach and adopt a “Government Seal of Approval.”
I’m glad they’re right on top of this.
Man made global warming fake news is so recent. Cough, cough...
Another words, fake news is perfectly fine when it advances their agenda.
“The new civics course in schools: How to avoid fake news”
A good start is to assume anything claimed to be from “unnamed sources” is simply stuff that was made up, particularly if it was published in the NYT or WaPo.
Before that, just plain propaganda.
It is not a racial epithet. But, it is resented highly, because it reveals the true nature of the mainstream media.
How to avoid fake news
Never listen to a liberal
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