class and occurricula and teachers, so let s hear about the misinformation of facts and fictions. let s go to new york where these lessons are being applied. students are learning how to spot fake images, and in some cases they re bringing lessons home for their families. here s what i learned. barbara king wants to arm this eighth grade class all right, so today s topic is misinformation with the tools they will need in the age of information saturation. we re going to talk about the various types of information. they re called satire, full content, imposter content, manipulated content and fabricated content. just imagine trying to make sense of all of this as a
teenager. now we go to imposter content. what does imposter mean? someone trying to be someone else. someone trying to be someone else, right? you hear that in relation to imposter. it s usually using a name, brand or logo into fooling people to believe it s authauthentic. as the web becomes more of a wild west every day the students here in new york know they need these lessons. if they re looking at stuff that s just wrong and telling everyone that it s right and giving everyone false information. king began teaching this five years ago. why do you think you should teach this? i think it s a skill our students need. there is too much misinformation in the world, and i want to give them some tools to make sense of what they re seeing.