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19 Online News Resources for Kids

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Here are popular online resources to teach about news sources for kids ( click here for updates to this list ): Allsides (news stories compared across multiple political perspectives) Breaking News –from Class Tools, create your own screen BBC News (app) C News for kids Kids News – Current Events Listenwise Newsela –news for kids, reformatted at (..)

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7 websites to teach fake news

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We wrote about fake news earlier this week ( How to defeat fake news–one teacher’s ideas ). Here are additional resources you’ll find helpful in teaching about this topic: Fake News game — from BBC. How to spot fake news — a video. Interview with a fake news creator.

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A Lesson Plan for Addressing What’s in the News

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Those days are gone with fake news, yellow journalism, and opinions dressed up as news stories. So how to you talk about what’s in the news? Marcee Harris over at Teaching Channel has a lesson plan to help you: How to Talk About What’s in the News: A Lesson Plan. News Sources for Kids. How do you tell?

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How to defeat fake news–one teacher’s ideas

Ask a Tech Teacher

What has increased in the last decade is the prevalence of ‘fake new’, what used to be called ‘yellow journalism’, where news is presented ina way that garners views and clicks rather than disseminates the truth. Education Week tackles this issue as a teacher describes efforts to defeat fake news online.

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Computer game in school made students better at detecting fake news

ScienceDaily (EdTech section)

A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading news.

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Coronavirus, Kobe Bryant and News Literacy with Darren Hudgins

The CoolCatTeacher

Darren Hudgins talks about how to help kids sort through viral news stories From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As the Coronavirus spreads, so does the news about it. Some stories are accurate. Some stories are not. And some stories are full of half-truths. Have the conversations now.

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Your Weekly News Briefs

EdNews Daily

The post Your Weekly News Briefs first appeared on EdNews Daily. The state Economic Affairs Interim Committee Monday met with a school district that’s using facial recognition technology, and leading public school associations and agencies.

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