The Truth: How to Identify Fake News & Distinguish Fact from Opinion: Fake News Resources

From Indiana U. East

From Loyola Marymount U.

From U. of CA at Berkeley

From Washington State U.

From Cornell U.

From Benedictine University

From Penn State University

Joyce Valenza is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication

An assignment from Radford U.

From the Media Literacy Clearinghouse
Includes lesson plans & videos

". . . A media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels"

From Stony Brook U. School of Journalism
Includes lessons, a Course Pack, and more

Organization dedicated to helping readers determine the credibility of their news sources.

From Snopes.com
"Fake news may be a bad thing, but not all bad news reporting is "fake," and that distinction should be kept clear."

From Thomas P. Mackey, Vice Provost for Academic Programs, SUNY Empire State College & Trudi Jacobson, Distinguished Librarian, University at Albany, State University of New York

From Pew Research Center

From the Pew Research Center

From the Chronicle of Higher Education

From Steve Inskeep at National Public Radio (NPR)

From Newsweek

From the New York Times

From The New York Times

From The Guardian

From Project Information Literacy

From the Chronicle of Higher Education

From Pew Research Center

From Stanford University

From USC

From Business Insider

From the Washington Post

Markham Nolan, journalist, shares investigative techniques he uses to verify information

From The News Literacy Project

From The New York Times

The first is: "Seek truth and report it"

From NPR--see the full study below

Researchers were shocked at the inability of students at various levels to evaluate the information they consumed

From Education Week & by instructors at Stanford

From CNN--see the full study below

"The individuals who are least equipped to identify false news content are also the least aware of their own limitations and, therefore, more susceptible to believing it and spreading it further."--Abstract