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How teachers should handle when students repeat family misinformation

I teach middle school and my students ask me about news stories that are completely false but they heard from their parents.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The classroom becomes a battlefield between institutional truth and familial truth, with children caught between loyalties.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Disinformation and its technology?”

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