Information Literacy

During the year at Gippsland Grammar each year level has at least two sessions on Information literacy. This is comprised of looking at the resources the libraries provide and also information and activities related to identifying Fake news, Propaganda and Conspiracy theories.

We are arming students with the ability to further develop critical thinking, understand media bias, avoid fake news and stop spreading it, and have access to authentic information and the ability to locate it.

The following article goes through and explains fact checking sites such as Snopes,, Hoaxslayer and Factcheck.org. In Australia we have ABC factcheck which works with the online publication The Conversation. I will write about The Conversation in a further post.

The 8 Best Fact-Checking Sites for Finding Unbiased Truth