factitious - fake news

Great quiz to evaluate students understanding and/or misconception of current events.  Recommend it for high schoolers and adults.  

That looks like a helpful resource. Thanks for pointing it out! There are so many resources out there, and it would be great for myself and my students to find a means of weeding out the fake news.

Factitious - Fake News Thread- This looks like a wonderful resource to use when teaching students how to evaluate websites (sources) for research.  Glad to know that you recommend this for high school students. It seems that students seem to think that if it is on the Internet - it's real.  

As soon as I post this comment I'm going straight to Factitious! This sounds like a wonderful site to show kids that real fake information is out there.. LOL
Students should be shown how easily we all can be fooled by the information we pull up on our computers.
Look for reliable sources!!!!
Thank you for this suggestion.

I was unfamiliar with this site, but have checked it out and it seems like it would be a helpful exercise for middle and high school students.  With the words 'fake news' flying around these days, I think it is more important than ever to give students the tools they need to distinguish between fake and real news.  This would be great to use before having students complete a current events project on their own.

I completely agree. This is one I had never heard of, but it is something that you hear all the time. It is also a very important skill to work on with students and this site would be a great way to help explore the idea of fake news. This is a topic I have done a little bit with students, but could now add this into one of my lessons.  

I explored FACTITIOUS and found it to be fun and entertaining with regards to determining fake news.  I thought the articles were a little dated...but still served the purpose.

This looks like a great resource! So many students (even adults!) don't know what they should believe on the news these days. A good evaluative tool goes a long way!

I tried it after seeing this post and it was a fun way to test your knowledge.  This would be be good after doing lessons on fake news with the students.  They could test how good they are at spotting it.  Some of them were easy and some were actual difficult to spot.