How Do We Teach Students (and Ourselves) What Media to Believe?

We are now in an age of misinformation where even established sources of information are being labeled as biased or fake. How do we teach our students to discern credible information from deceptive and blatantly false?

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Peter Adams is the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president for educational programs. He leads NLP’s curriculum and resource development, provides teacher training and oversees the classroom and digital programs, including the new checkology™ virtual classroom. Julie Smith has taught media literacy at the university level since 1997. Twitter: @PeterD_Adams