Roosevelt High School government teacher Aldo Parral uses the News Literacy Project's materials to teach his students how to read the news and sniff out what's not true. — Los Angeles Times/TNS
The Instagram headline was pithy and alarming: “Head of Pfizer Research: Covid Vaccine is Female Sterilisation.” And the report, from a murky source, could have had real-world consequences, coming in 2020, just as the US rolled out the first vaccines to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
That made the story a perfect tool for an educator trying to teach high school students how to separate fact from fiction — a survival skill in a culture drowning in a tsunami of information.
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