Enhancing Critical Thinking Through Fake News Instruction

Explore strategies to teach critical-thinking skills in the context of fake news across various academic disciplines. Learn how to prioritize and analyze critical-thinking skills essential for evaluating news items and develop tailored library instruction to enhance students' information literacy. Access lesson plans and resources from the ACRL Sandbox to bring practical applications into the classroom.

• Critical thinking
• Fake news
• Library instruction
• Academic disciplines
• Information literacy

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1. Faculty Conversations: Bringing the Next Level of Fake News Library Instruction into the Classroom Teaching About Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences

2. Overview 1. Define Critical-Thinking 2. Fake News Critical-Thinking Skills a. Brainstorm b. Prioritization 3. Library Instruction Search the ACRL Sandbox for more lessons with #fakenews

3. What is Critical-Thinking? Search the ACRL Sandbox for more lessons with #fakenews

4. Step 1: What critical-thinking skills are necessary for students to be able to analyze a news item? Search the ACRL Sandbox for more lessons with #fakenews

5. Step 2: What is most important? a. Do any of the critical-thinking skills work together in an essential way, and if so, how? b. Are there 1- or 2 critical-thinking skills that are of paramount importance? Why? c. Do any of these critical-thinking skills seem particularly relevant for your academic discipline? d. Which of the critical-thinking skills are not as important for this stage in the learning process? e. Are there any of the critical-thinking skills that are too complex to address in the time allotted? Search the ACRL Sandbox for more lessons with #fakenews

6. STEP 3: WHAT WILL THE LIBRARY INSTRUCTION BE? Search the ACRL Sandbox for more lessons with #fakenews

7. QUESTIONS? Search the ACRL Sandbox for more lessons with #fakenews