Title: Fighting Fake News
Description: Critical thinking and online reading need to go hand in hand―but they often don’t. Students click, swipe, and believe because they don’t know how to do otherwise. At times, so do we. And that’s a problem. *Fighting Fake News* combats this challenge by helping you model how to read, myth-bust, truth-test, and respond in ways that lead to wisdom rather than reactivity.

No matter what content you teach, the lessons showcased here provide engaging, collaborative reading and discussion experiences so students can:

 - Notice how teacher and peers read
   digital content, to be mindful of how
   various reading pathways influence
   perception
 - Identify the author background, the
   website sponsor, and other evidence
   that help set a piece in context
 - Stress-test the facts by evaluating
   news sources, reading laterally, and
   other critical reading strategies
 - Use "Reader’s Rules of Notice" to
   learn to identify common rhetorical
   devices used to influence the reader
 - Be aware of how for-profit social
   media platforms feed on our responses
   to narrow rather than widen our
   reading landscape

We are still in the wild west era of the digital age, scrambling to impart a safer, ethical framework for evaluating information. Thankfully, it distills to one mission: teach students (and ourselves) how to think critically, and we will forever have the tools to fight fake news.