by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Media Fluency
Detecting fake news is hard, and it’s about to get a whole lot harder. In today’s digital world, fake news is reported about as frequently as legitimate news is. As online information continues to expand at astonishing rates, the challenge becomes clear.... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Information Fluency
Pull the lever on your classroom time machine, friends. We’re going to take a look back at some of the top education news stories that made the online circuit in 2016. These were no ordinary stories, either. According to BuzzSumo, these were the ones everyone... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Information Fluency
Fake news happens just as often as real news does. That’s especially true in our interconnected Internet-driven age of information. Getting duped by fake news is one of the inherent risks of consuming information on the Internet. So how do we tell the fake stuff... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Project Based Learning
Ever since we launched the Solution Fluency Activity Planner a few months back, the response to it has been inspiring. We love that you love using it for your inquiry- and PBL planning. For those of you who haven’t experienced it yet, please do check it out... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Global Digital Citizen, Technology
Doesn’t it seem like a lot of online news sites have moved beyond reporting the news to openly inciting your outrage (and your page views)? News analyst Sally Kohn suggests — don’t engage with news that looks like it just wants to make you mad. Instead,...