1. Mr. Bielec
Mass Media

5. What is fake news?

6. *Fake news is a type of hoax or deliberate spread of misinformation … with the intent to mislead in order to gain financially or politically. It often employs eye-catching headlines or entirely fabricated news- stories in order to increase readership and … online sharing. In the latter case, profit is made in a similar fashion to clickbait and relies on ad-revenue generated regardless of the [truthfulness] of the published stories
* From Wikipedia

7. What isn’t fake news?

10. BIASED NEWS
FAKE NEWS

11. objectives

12. Students will understand
What fake news is
Why fake news is so prevalent now
How to identify and combat fake news in their own lives

13. Cnn questions

14. CNN Video vocab/questions
Echo chamber
Why is fake news becoming so popular? Consider our current landscape.
How/ why does fake news spread?

15. CNN VIDEO

16. Students will understand
What fake news is
Why fake news is so prevalent now
How to identify and combat fake news in their own lives

17. CNN Video vocab/questions
Echo chamber
Why is fake news becoming so popular? Consider our current landscape.
How/ why does fake news spread?
Bots  people  social media expands story
Salacious headlines (click-bait)
We only read the headlines
Confirmation bias
Producers of fake news make tons of $$$
People are so polarized and skeptical(of the other side) now

19. Fake news sites
wikipedia

21. Let’s read some fake news!

22. Students will understand
What fake news is
Why fake news is so prevalent now
How to identify and combat fake news in their own lives

23. Fraudulent Clinton votes
Christian Times
New York Times
Thoughts/feelings while reading the fake news article.
Cite specific evidence that helps prove this article is fake news?
Why would this article pick up traction? Cite specifics.
Thoughts/feelings while reading the article.
What bias is present? Where did you note it?
What are some things that can help us spot fake news? Start a list.

24. Why does fake news matter?

25. NPR ARTICLE

26. Stanford STUDY
NPR STORY: if above link doesn’t work, click on “a new study” hyperlink in beginning of article to access the study

27. Middle school (Home page analysis)

29. High school (Evaluating evidence)

31. College level (Claims on social media)

33. Read “schools should teach pupils how to spot ‘fake news’”

34. WHAT ARE THE RAMIFICATIONS OF a society that cannot decipher between real and fake news?

35. What can we do to combat fake news?
“This is how you stop fake news” – Washington Post

36. Death Panels
Rumor
AMA/AARP
Democrat
Republican

37. Death Panels
Rumor
AMA/AARP
Democrat
Republican

38. What does this study say about us as a culture?
Do you buy this study? Why/why not?
How feasible is this solution?

39. What solutions can you think of that may help to combat the problem of fake news?

40. Final project