Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Don鈥檛 Confuse Me With the Data, My Mind is Made Up!
2018
Selma Wassermann
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation makes a case for the importance of developing students鈥� intelligent habits of mind so that they become more discriminating consumers of the information that comes at them from the Internet, social media, television and the tabloid press in this 鈥渁lternate truth鈥� era. Part I sets the stage for the need for an informed citizenry, given the many and varied sources of disinformation that they are exposed to and what the implications are when they are unable to make such distinctions. Part II deals with the specifics of how teachers may develop curriculum activities that call for higher order thinking, within the many and diverse subject areas of elementary and secondary education. Click here for more details.