Tips and Strategies for Evaluating Fake News

Are you looking for some new information literacy assignment and activity ideas for the new semester?    Project CORA is an excellent open-access resource for Information Literacy lesson plans, handouts and activities.

Of timely interest might be Keepin’ It Real: Tips and Strategies for Evaluating Fake News.  It contains materials used at a Loyola Marymount  University workshop designed to help  students became more confident in their ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability of news reports, whether they come via print, television or the internet.

We’ve placed a link to these materials on the Additional Resources page of our Library’s Fake News Research Guide.