The media-savvy middle school classroom : strategies for teaching against disinformation /

"The Media Savvy Middle School Classroom is a practical guide for teachers of grades 5-8 who need to educate their students with media literacy skills. Today's fake news, alternative facts, and digital manipulations are compromising the critical thinking and well-being of middle-grade lear...

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Main Author: Brooks-Young, Susan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
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Summary:"The Media Savvy Middle School Classroom is a practical guide for teachers of grades 5-8 who need to educate their students with media literacy skills. Today's fake news, alternative facts, and digital manipulations are compromising the critical thinking and well-being of middle-grade learners already going through significant personal changes. This actionable book prepares teachers to help their students become informed consumers of online resources. Spanning correct source use, personal versus expert opinions, deliberate misinformation, social media, and more, these ready-to-use activities can be integrated directly into existing language arts and mathematics lesson plans"--
Physical Description:pages cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780367418151
0367418150
9780367420796
0367420791