Recently, when I taught Digital Citizenship to 8th grade students, we discussed "fake" news and how to recognize it. We started with a study by Stanford professor Sam Wineburg, who asked more than 7,000 students to evaluate online articles and news sources. He found that "large portions of the students--at times as much as 80 or 90 percent--had trouble judging the credibility of the news they read." Click the link below to read an article from which the quote and information comes.
So today I got a post from CommonSense Media that is on the same topic and gives tips for helping students "decode" fake news. It's an interesting and practical read. You can link to it from the button below.