Helping Students Identify Fake News with the Five Cs of Critical Consuming

Please Subscribe to My Channel Here With digital tools, it is easier than ever to create, edit, and publish your work to the world. But theres a cost. Its also easier than ever to spread misinformation. And fake news has become a real issue in recent times. We see this with students. According to a Stanford study, only 25 of high school students were able to identify an accurate news story when also given a fake one. Students also had a hard time distinguishing between real and fake photographs as well as authentic and staged videos. Researchers used the words bleak and dismaying to describe it. But its not going away anytime soon and thats a very real problem. So, how do we fix it Well, heres a fivestep process that Ive used with students. A word of caution. Its not perfect and there are probably other models out there but I thought I would share it just in case you might want to use it. We call it the