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How to Avoid Misinformation About COVID-19

smithsonianmag.com In mid-February, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an international security conference: "We're not just fighting an epidemic. We're fighting an infodemic." As COVID-19 cases have surged across the globe, so has misinformation.

Verify Your Sources

Common Sense Education. (2017, April 14). Poster: Legit-O-Meter. Retrieved November 28, 2017, from https://www.commonsense.org/education/asset/document/poster-legit-o-meter

NEWSEUM ED. (n.d.). E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News. Retrieved November 28, 2017, from https://newseumed.org/activity/e-s-c-a-p-e-junk-news-mlbp/

NEWSEUM ED. (2017). Is This Story Share-Worthy? Flowchart. Retrieved November 28, 2017, from https://newseumed.org/activity/is-this-story-share-worthy-flowchart-mlbp/

Adapted from Evaluating Information - Applying the CRAAP Test from the Meriam Library at California State University, Chico

Meriam Library California State University, Chico. (2017). Is this source or information good? Retrieved November 28, 2017, from http://library.csuchico.edu/help/source-or-information-good

Just the Facts Please

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Adapted from Common Sense Media. (2017, November 02). Help Students Fact-Check the Web Like the Pros. Retrieved November 28, 2017, from https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/help-students-fact-check-the-web-like-the-pros

Helpful Links

Skills and Strategies | Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources

Update: Please also see our new, 2017 lesson, Evaluating Sources in a 'Post-Truth' World: Ideas for Teaching and Learning About Fake News _________ How do you know if something you read is true? Why should you care? We pose these questions this week in honor of News Engagement Day on Oct.

In an era of fake news, students must act like journalists

When students sign up for oceanography at San Pasqual High School in Escondido, Calif., many can't wait to discuss mermaids and monster sharks. They are quickly chagrined to learn that neither actually exists. "People come in with hard-core misconceptions that come right off the internet or TV," says teacher Dan Perreault.