Critical Thinking Skills support all Literacy
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Critical ThinkingBarbour, Benjamin. "Teaching Students How to Use Wikipedia Wisely." Media Literacy, Edutopia, 5 July 2019.
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Bedley, Scott. "I taught my 5th-graders how to spot fake news. Now they won’t stop fact-checking me." Vox, 29 Mar. 2017. Farkas, Meredith. "Beyond Fake News: Determining what sources to trust." American Libraries, 1 June 2018. Gossel, Collin. "Library Creates Genius Bookmark to Teach Students How to Spot Fake News." Guacamoley: Get Your Scoop, July 2018. Gillespie, Amy. "Web Evaluation: Does This Website Smell Funny to You?" KQ, AASL, 9 Feb. 2018. Luhtala, Michelle, and Jacquelyn Whiting. "The Fake-News Fad: Let it Fade | Opinion." School Library Journal, 10 Apr. 2017. Librarians have always taught critical thinking! McMullin, Shelly Lynne. "The Correlation between Information Literacy and Critical Thinking of College Students: An Exploratory Study." ERIC, ProQuest, 2019. "Is This Story Share-Worthy? Flowchart." Newseum, NewseumEd. Paschal, Maureen. "This School Librarian Teaches Students About (Actual) Fake News. Here’s How Parents Can, Too." On Parenting, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2017. Whitehead, Tiffany. "News Literacy for Educators (with 15 Tools)." TechNotes, TCEA, 23 May 2019. |
Some Definitions
"Critical thinking is that mode of thinking — about any subject, content, or problem — in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking." Information Literacy is "being able to efficiently locate, accurately evaluate, effectively use, and clearly communicate information in various formats." “Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information, an ability that requires both cognitive and technical skills” (ALA 2013). Easy Resources to Fight Fake NewsGale. "Fight Fake News Harnessing the Power of your Statewide Gale Resources." Vidyard, 12 Apr. 2018. These are your tax-supported free-to-students database resources.
Greller, J. “11 Non-Partisan Fact-Checking Websites.” 31 Aug 2020, Updated 3 Sep; A Media Specialists Guide to the Internet blog. Snelling, Jennifer. "Top 10 sites to help students check their facts." Digital and Media Literacy, ISTE, 1 Feb. 2018. Spot the Troll. Clemson University Media Forensics Hub. “The quiz where YOU examine images of real social media content and decide whether it's from a legitimate account or an internet troll.” "Get Your Own ‘E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News’ Poster Download." Newseum ED, 2018. 
Watanabe-Crockett, Lee. "The Critical Thinking Skills Cheatsheet [Infographic]." Wabisabi Blog, Global Digital Citizen Foundation, 12 Dec. 2016, https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/critical-thinking-skills-cheatsheet-infographic
"Is This Story Share-Worthy? Flowchart." Newseum, NewseumEd,
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