Teaching in the Age of Disinformation: Don't Confuse Me with the Data, My Mind Is Made Up!

by Selma Wassermann

Book Overview

Teaching in the Age of Disinformation makes a case for the importance of developing students' intelligent habits of mind so that they become more discriminating consumers of the information that comes at them from the Internet, social media, television and the tabloid press in this "alternate truth" era. Part I sets the stage for the need for an informed citizenry, given the many and varied sources of disinformation that they are exposed to and what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475840985
• ISBN13: 9781475840988
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"