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Fake news: How teachers are helping kids sort it out
San Jose Mercury ^ | March 18, 2017 | Sharon Noguchi |

Posted on 03/19/2017 12:24:34 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Kayleigh Peterson and her classmates at Los Altos High think they can tell real from fake news. There are the plethora of ads, random pop-up boxes, misspelled words and way too many unbelievable claims. But Kayleigh still can’t help falling for click bait — she estimates she spends 70 percent of her internet-cruising time checking out fake stories.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fakestreammedia
Lessons on fake news fit right into the state’s Common Core State Standards, which encourage primary-source research, discussion and critical thinking — answering the “why” questions over the “what.”


Using a fake curriculum to study fake news. This will turn out well. Wonder if they would be doing this if Hilary won?

1 posted on 03/19/2017 12:24:34 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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answering the “why” questions over the “what.”

If you do not have a solid foundation of "what" then how can one start addressing "why"?

2 posted on 03/19/2017 12:26:59 PM PDT by C19fan
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I just look for the Washington Post, CNN or New York Times label...
3 posted on 03/19/2017 12:27:47 PM PDT by kiryandil
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We all know this “teacher” probably would fail an elementary logic class.


4 posted on 03/19/2017 12:28:05 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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“At Burlingame High, Alison Liberatore’s lesson on the “fake news king” featured in a Planet Money podcast got gratifying thumbs-up feedback from her U.S. History students.”

Planet Money an NPR production.


5 posted on 03/19/2017 12:30:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Obama, Clinton, Schumer, Hollywood, any bid city newspaper, just about any TV news - truth.

Trump and his cabinet, staff, and conservatives - all lies.

Class dismissed! You all get an "A+"

6 posted on 03/19/2017 12:31:19 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL)
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how about fanatasy island

http://www.hillarybeattrump.org


7 posted on 03/19/2017 12:35:24 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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Teachers helping kids sort out "fake news" in Los Altos...according to the San Jose Mercury.

Do I really need to know any more? Is there any need for me to read on?

No,I didn't think so.

I know Los Altos...a woman I once dated lived there.

8 posted on 03/19/2017 12:46:52 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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I love how quickly their claims of fake news stories turned on them. Now they’re coming up with tons of stories to get people to believe their fake news. They never learn.


9 posted on 03/19/2017 12:54:27 PM PDT by Trillian
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I was always cautioning students not to believe stuff just because it was on the internet. It was amazing how they would take Lamestream media stories at face value without questioning them whatsoever. I felt this was very dangerous, as it was therefore childishly easy to feed them whatever you wanted them to believe. There are exceedingly FEW students, in my experience, who are intellectually mature enough to question the sources of so-called “news”. That’s a shame, but it’s a natural by product of libtard indoctrination.


10 posted on 03/19/2017 1:30:04 PM PDT by EinNYC
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Children are embedded with dependency in the Freemasonry, sodomite curricula of John Dewey, the Humanist materialist.

They destroyed Classical Christian curricula-—the ONLY TOOLS to create a profound thinking human being (vs. tribal mindsets were base instincts rule reason). Common Core embeds satanism and dependency and ignorance on profound subjects—like Locke, Federalist papers, etc.

That was intentional—to destroy the minds of little children—remove them from the Natural Family at early age so they could embed “group-think” only and destroy Free Will and agency (Individualism) in children. (Fichte 1810, “snow is black”.)

Only teaching the Wisdom of the Ages (works of John Locke, Adam Smith, the Federalist Papers—the philosophy of the Ancients (Socratic Method and Aristotelian Logic and Euclid’s proofs——creates MINDS that can think in profound ways and figure out FAKE NEWS.

Christianity created the Scholastic period and the Classical Christian curricula which created the Age of Reason , the Renaissance and Modern Science-—and that is what the German Prussian system of mass indoctrination was set up for-—to destroy the common sense of little children (who used to ONLY stay in the family’s care so they could embed natural emotions and understanding of Truth (Reality-Common Sense). People who could think on profound levels, never went to an indoctrination “group” socializing system which destroys individualism, etc.

US was unique-—in that we didn’t have the “boarding” schools like England to satisfy the pederasts (sodomites) who ran them. It was essential to put vulnerable children in the hands of the evil, warped sodomites so they could groom and embed servility for the next generation (exactly what they did to destroy American Indian culture in America and make them into blubbering, drunken fools)-—emasculation so they are easy to control and make submit to irrationality-—nihilism/sodomy/ anti-Christian (reason) mindsets.


11 posted on 03/19/2017 1:46:25 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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