Using fake news as reading materials to promote students’ critical thinking skills
source: google Introduction In the current era, technology is developing very rapidly and is getting more sophisticated. In line with this, the spread of information in the current era has also become very fast, in just seconds information can be spread to various regions. So much information is spread on the internet without us knowing the truth. Every day we are presented with various types of world news without knowing which news is true and which news is deliberately made up for certain purposes. In these conditions it is important to teach students to be information literate. They must know how to sort out information so as not to misunderstand information. Students must be equipped with the ability to identify fake news. Fake news is news that is deliberately fabricated and engineered to be as similar as possible to credible journalism in order to attract the attention of many general public and has a specific purpose (Hunt, 2016). In the US, the context of fake news is very mu...
