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Media Smarts: How to Recognize False Content Online: The New 5 Ws [Pdf] HandoutMedia Smarts: How to Recognize False Content Online: The New 5 Ws [Pdf] Handout
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Media Smarts
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9th - 10th
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21 Century Skills
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1280L
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Media Smarts: How to Recognize False Content Online: The New 5 Ws [Pdf]

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A tip sheet to help both students and adults learn how to test online content for validity.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

critical thinking

Additional Tags

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Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RST.6-8.8 CCRA.W.8 RH.6-8.8

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