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Fake News about the Future of Education

Doug Levin

But I also mean how we pay for it, how it affects the priorities and decisions of people who work in education or go to school, and how it interacts with the longstanding debates about how state and federal policymakers should ‘fix schools.’ It is instead about the future, always about the future. I think it does.

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Talking with Students About Shocking or Disturbing News

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In our 24/7 breaking news world, there seems to be a new crisis every day. As news outlets compete for clicks, all of us -- including kids -- are immersed in more headlines than ever before. Unless you teach current events or social studies, most of the day's news probably won't make it into your classroom.

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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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20 Questions To Help Students Think Critically About News

TeachThought - Learn better.

20 Questions To Help Students Think Critically About News by TeachThought Staff 1. Exactly who is saying who exactly what about what? That is, what other and publication are making what kind of claim about what topic or ideas? Is what’s being said fact or opinion? Does this headline seem true? This is […].

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An Interesting Game To Teach Students To Think Critically About Fake News

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An Interesting Game To Teach Students To Think Critically About Fake News by Terry Heick Want to help students learn to think critically about ‘fake news’? What is Bad News? Bad News is a simple tool to help students understand ‘fake news,’ the (modern?)

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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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Some Very Bad News about the UNESCO OER Recommendation

Iterating Toward Openness

I recently wrote a brief essay about the wonderful new UNESCO OER Recommendation. Over five years ago I began writing and speaking about the problem with promoting “the ability to access” over “the permission to make, own, and control a copy.” The tl;dr. “Access” is Nowhere Near Sufficient.

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