Some ideas for student activities:
and http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/guest-post-practical-tools-for-teaching-news-literacy/
More on the mis- and disinformation (formerly “fake”) news-makers:
Slate’s answer for finding fake news on FB:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/12/introducing_this_is_fake_slate_s_tool_for_stopping_fake_news_on_facebook.html
Crummy sites:
And
‘False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources‘ by Melissa Zimdars
Fake news, reliable sources libguide from Nathan Rinne
Construct your own matrix:
Benjes-Small, C., Archer, A., Tucker, K., Vassady, L., & Resor Whicker, J. (2013). Teaching Web Evaluation: A Cognitive Development Approach. Communications In Information Literacy, 7(1). Retrieved March 6, 2014, from http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php?journal=cil&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=v7i1p39
Especially Appendix A
and: Alyssa Archer and Candice Benjes-Smal also developed “Evaluating news sites: Credible or Clickbait?” at http://www.projectcora.org/assignment/evaluating-news-sites-credible-or-clickbait
An infographic of “A decent breakdown of all things real and fake news.” here: http://i.imgur.com/7xHaUXf.jpg
includes sources for verifying news: https://greenwichfreepress.com/news/darien-reference-librarian-shares-ways-to-spot-fake-news-click-bait-satire-79507/
A nice overview:
“Campuses, she said, will have to “either put our money where our mouths are and follow through on this, or accept that our students are not going to be as information- and media-literate as we believe they should be.””
http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Can-Students-Be-Taught-to/238652