Fighting Fake News: Teaching Students to Identify and Interrogate Information Pollution

About Deborah ApplemanHugh KessonJeffrey D. WilhelmMichael W. Smith

A classroom teacher for fifteen years ?Jeffrey D. Wilhelm? is currently Professor of English Education at Boise State University. He works in local schools as part of a Virtual Professional Development Site Network sponsored by the Boise State Writing Project and regularly teaches middle and high school students. Jeff is the founding director of the Maine Writing Project and the Boise State Writing Project.  Michael W. Smith a professor in Temple Universitys College of Education joined the ranks of college teachers after eleven years of teaching high school English. His research focuses on understanding both how adolescents and adults engage with texts outside school and how teachers can use those understandings to devise more motivating and effective instruction inside schools.  Hugh Kesson trained as a high school teacher in London and has since worked in a variety of educational roles and settings in the UK US and Australia. He earned his PhD at Temple Universitys College of Education where his doctoral work investigated the influences of digital technologies on reading and reading instruction. Hughs writing has appeared in English Teaching: Practice & Critique.   Deborah Appleman is Professor of Educational Studies and Director of the Summer Writing Program at Carleton College in Northfield Minnesota. Her primary interests include adolescent response to literature multicultural literature and the teaching of literary theory to high school students. A high school English teacher for nine years Deborah works weekly in urban and suburban high schools.