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🔍 EXPLORE: "NEWSFLIX" Choice Board for Middle School Learners!
This month we’re focusing on Choice Boards! Choice Boards are a fun way to provide learners with options and self-efficacy throughout the learning…
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Dr. Ken Bort, PhD
September 2022
🔍 EXPLORE: What is Prebunking?
A potential vaccine against mis-, dis-, and mal-information!
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Dr. Ken Bort, PhD
August 2022
🔍 EXPLORE: Food, Science, and Legitimacy
A delicious recipe for viral every time.
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Dr. Ken Bort, PhD
July 2022
🔍 EXPLORE: "Headline Distress Disorder"
Why some people are opting out of the news
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Dr. Ken Bort, PhD
June 2022
🔍 EXPLORE: Politicians Have Gotten Meaner in Recent Years
A new study finds Twitter incivility up among members of Congress.
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Dr. Ken Bort, PhD
May 2022
March 2022
🔍 EXPLORE: Russian 'Sock Puppets' Spreading Misinformation On Social Media About Ukraine
Alert readers will undoubtedly recognize “sock puppets” as a suspect from Chapter 4 of Developing Digital Detectives! This article unpacks how sock…
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Dr. Ken Bort, PhD
February 2022
🔍 EXPLORE: Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies
It’s their brains! This article from Scientific American discusses why the teenage brain is ripe for falling for disinformation AND why some information…
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Dr. Ken Bort, PhD
January 2022
🔍 EXPLORE: Too much time scrolling? Instagram now urging teens to 'take a break'
A new feature on Instagram prompts users, who self-identified as between the ages of 13-18 when they signed up, to take a screen break after spending an…
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Dr. Ken Bort, PhD
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