In the Media

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“Students Fall for Misinformation Online. Is Teaching Them to Read Like Fact Checkers the Solution?”

Chronicle of Higher Education | 2022

“These Students are Learning about Fake News and How to Stop it.”

New York Times | 2020

“Why History is Hard—and Dangerous—to Teach.”

Washington Post | 2020

“Betsy DeVos calls low history and civics marks ‘stark and inexcusable,’ but are NAEP scores worth fretting?”

Washington Post | 2020

“College Students Struggle to Spot Misinformation Online.”

USA Today | 2020

“You Can’t Believe Everything You Read Online. Many Students Don’t Seem to Know That.”

Washington Post | 2019

Watch

Students Need to Put the Evidence Together for Themselves Rather Than Repeating Someone Else’s Story (starts at 5:16)

ABC News

King5 News, Seattle, Fake News? Tacoma Students Learn to Decipher the Truth (@2:40)

King5 News, Seattle

Overview: How to Assess Digital Literacy

Spencer Foundation

Let’s Help Students Distinguish ‘Cheap Fakes’ before Attempting to Help them Distinguish ‘Deep Fakes’

MSNBC

Digital Native or Digitally Naïve?

Google Summit

Listen

The Classroom Where Fake News Fails

NPR

History is Being Taught Wrong (and How to Fix It)

KQED

What is Unique about Historical Thinking

American Association of State & Local History

Sam Wineburg, History Professor, Author, Truth Seeker, and Wikipedia Fan

Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People

Why Learn History When It’s Already on Your iPhone.

Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas

History for the iPhone Generation.

Professor John Fea’s Way of Improvement Leads Home