Looking for a good read this weekend? Check out these titles by leading #misinformation experts like Gary Marcus Roger McNamee Richard Stengel Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD Gale Sinatra ☮️ Barb McQuade Timothy Snyder Jonathan Haidt Sander van der Linden Sam Wineburg Marianna Spring + others tipaz.org/books-1

Want ideas and resources for teaching students to be more mindful consumers of online content? Download our free 'Lateral Reading with Current Events' template.
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Even the savviest among us has something to learn from Mike Caulfield Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg Sam Wineburg in VERIFIED. In our digital age, we can all use their tips for spotting misinformation online #AERA2024

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The Way to Prevent Being Duped, with Mike Caulfield
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This 👇 Sometimes, I feel a history lesson unravelling right from the start when a new abstract term is introduced at the start of the lesson as new vocab ('Today we will learn...') before the stories have even begun. It's like telling the punchline before you've told the joke.

How and why did U.S. policy on Mexican migration change from the Great Depression to World War II? Use this free document-based task to teach or assess this historical content and the skill of contextualization.
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If you've been waiting to buy VERIFIED today's the day--it's being discounted to under $12!

'Get on board with AI or be left behind' is the message bombarding educators. Read this important reminder to slow down before we rush into something we don't fully understand. themarkup.org/hello-world/20…

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When your students watch a TikTok—and many of them do that a *lot*—do they question the veracity of what they see & hear?

In states like Illinois, biology teacher Adrienne Toomey is embedding this critical #MediaLiteracy skill practice into her classroom instruction.

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Sam Wineburg Digital Inquiry Group Shawn Healy CivXNow “We can’t blame young people for not knowing something they’ve never been taught.” -Sam Wineburg, Digital Inquiry Group. “Nobody’s given us any instructions... We’re driving blind. We don’t know the internet equivalent of driving over a double yellow line.”

Sam Wineburg Digital Inquiry Group Shawn Healy CivXNow FRONTLINE “Sam Wineburg’s research has shown that just a modest number of interventions can actually move the needle on this, but we need to know much more about what works.” -Shawn Healy, CivXNow

A short & very direct statement of why dwelling on an unfamiliar website, as a lot of 'web credibility checklists' still recommend, is often an invitation to being bamboozled.

In America, TikTok pushes videos to kids that promote self-harm, eating disorders, and suicide.

In China, the version of TikTok available there, the app shows young kids science experiments, museum exhibits, and other educational material.

An excellent overview from edutopia and author Andrew Boryga on why quality media literacy requires 'more than toothless laws' edutopia.org/article/qualit…

Always cool to walk into a classroom unannounced and see students digging into some primary sources from Digital Inquiry Group (nee SHEG). Great job, Fran Mahan! Ashlynn Campbell Sam Wineburg

Hey folks: Join the AHA for Civic Learning Week on 3/14 @ 2 PM ET with “American Lesson Plan: Mapping the Landscape of Secondary US History Education”—to discuss history's civic function in a polarized moment #AHALearn #AHAOnline historians.org/aha-online

Spending the morning with Mike Caulfield & Sam Wineburg. The first two chapters alone are worth reading if you teach research skills in your class, and honestly, they’ll improve your personal internet content consumption, too.