[aisle] "fake news" question

[Karrie Fisher]

Here are a couple of websites that I've used with high school students.  I
give them several and they have to figure out which websites are real.
Sometimes it requires reading the whole webpage, sometimes they have to do
a secondary search to confirm the validity.  I've indicated the real
websites.

https://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
https://zapatopi.net/afdb/
http://descy.50megs.com/akcj3/bmd.html
http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html
https://www.fvza.org/index.html
http://www.genochoice.com/
https://www.lingscars.com/  (REAL)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8029591/Mouse-found-baked-into-loaf-of-bread.html
(REAL)
https://www.thesprucepets.com/stick-insects-as-pets-1236887 (REAL)
http://city-mankato.us/

My high schoolers loved this exploration and had a few good debates about
the websites that looked legit.


Happily Ever After,

Karrie Fisher
Teacher Librarian
Library Media Specialist

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:03 AM Caroline Fox Anvick via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I teach a research class to high schoolers that discusses bad sources of
> information (unreliable websites, biased information, fake news, etc.). I
> love using examples of these bad sources - the more outrageous, the better!
> My problem is that most of the examples I find tend to be from far
> right-wing sources (Pizza-gate, birtherism, Kellyanne Conway's "alternative
> facts," etc.). My own personal politics aside, I don't want kids who
> identify as more conservative to feel like their team is being unfairly
> picked on. Does anyone have some good examples of fake news-ish type things
> from the Left?
> Thanks so much!
> MAILMAN_MIMEDEFANG
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