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Next week, I'll be attending the 6th annual New Jersey GAFE summit . In addition to facilitating a few workshops, I'm also very honoured to have been invited to deliver the opening keynote at the event. My presentation, titled Developing critical literacies: What students need to know in a "fake news" world , addresses what I see as one of the key challenges facing educators today: preparing students to survive and thrive in our reality.

In anticipation of this event, I've compiled a small collection of key readings, viewings, and other resources on the Padlet found below.

I'd love for you to take some time to explore the information collected on the Padlet and then to think about how you might start to address the issue of fake news in your own school context. Then, please take a few moments to respond, by commenting on this post OR by submitting your own video response to the Flipgrid below. Even if you won't be attending the New Jersey summit, I'd still love to hear your thoughts on this important issue in education!

This morning, I received a photo (found below - I added the watermark) from a catfishing victim. She received it from a scammer who had used many of my personal and professional photos to form an online, intimate relationship with her for the purpose of defrauding her out of money. The victim finally clued into the scam after already sending him thousands of dollars. While it may seem ridiculous to fall for such a scam, I receive hundreds of similar reports every year, and if you know of my ongoing saga, you will understand that I have tried my best to bring the problem to the attention of Facebook, Google, elected officials, law enforcement, etc. None of these organizations or agencies seem to be willing or able to do anything about this problem, and thus I feel the responsibility of teaching about such Internet scams must continue to be taken up by educators in K-12 and post-secondary institutions.

Over the years, I have seen teachers make great use of interesting "fake sites" designed to help students develop information literacies/skills. Some of these include , Save the Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus , Feline reactions to bearded men , and DehydratedWater.com . And while these are still great resources that can be used with some success, given the abundance of fake news and internet scams that inundate our digital society, there are plenty of opportunities to use fresh and authentic examples in class.

For instance, using the example of the photo above, students could employ some very basic info/digital literacy skills to identify the picture as a fake (i.e. photoshopped) picture through a reverse image search. In this Youtube video, I've previously demonstrated how to use Google Images to run a reverse image search , but I also wanted to highlight as an alternative tool for this task. To try out TinEye for this purpose, I would suggest that you download the above photo to your computer (ctrl-click+save or drag+drop), visit the TinEye site , and then upload the image to TinEye (there is also a TinEye Chrome extension available that makes the process a little quicker). In the case of the photo above, using TinEye produces the following results:

Exploring the resulting links, you will quickly discover that the original image shows Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in a terror attack in 2011 . Further investigation also reveals many additional photos of Breivik in custody, making it clear which version of the image is the photoshopped one (if the tiny size of my head compared to my body wasn't already enough proof).

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Next week, I'll be attending the 6th annual New Jersey GAFE summit . In addition to facilitating a few workshops, I'm also very honoured to have been invited to deliver the opening keynote at the event.

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Hans Rosling: The best stats you've ever seen

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You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."

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Adapt: Why success always starts with failure

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Adapt: Why success always starts with failure

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Adapt: Why success always starts with failure

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Join Tim Harford as he brings you the principles you need in business and in life, to survive, innovate and prosper in a complex and ever-shifting world.

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Ideas at the House: Tim Harford - Make More Mistakes (Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2012)

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In a complex and fast-moving world, if we want to move ahead in leaps and bounds, rather than in small steps, we need to rethink the conditions for making progress in science, business and society in a fundamental way. We need to realise there is no 'right way', lose our fear of failure, embrace opportunity and take risks.

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The Lost Genius of Irrationality: Rory Sutherland at TEDxOxford

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Rory is one of the most powerful men in marketing. Educated at Cambridge, he went on to become the Executive Creative Director and Vice-Chairman of OgilvyOne, and the Vice-Chairman of the overall Ogilvy Group.

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TEDxWWF - Rory Sutherland: The New Sweet Spot - And How to Find It

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Rory will share with us his views on how the most interesting scientific work nowadays comes often not from within a single discipline but from the happy collision of different fields. In the same way the most interesting business ideas may come from a new combination of old approaches.

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Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce | Malcolm Gladwell

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What prison camps teach you about the economy

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What prison camps teach you about the economy

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Tim Harford: What Prison Camps Can Teach You About the Economy

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Economist TIm Harford explain the micro-economies of prison camps and babysitting coops. Even in these simple systems, problems manifest that have macroeconomic analogs. Harford's latest book is The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: http://goo.gl/p7p2yv Don't miss new Big Think videos!

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Tim Harford | How to See into the Future | Oxford Union

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SUBSCRIBE for more speakers ► http://is.gd/OxfordUnion Oxford Union on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoxfordunion Oxford Union on Twitter: @OxfordUnion Website: http://www.oxford-union.org/ Tim Harford is an English economist and journalist, residing in London. He is the author of four economics books and writes his long-running Financial Times column, "The Undercover Economist", which is syndicated in Slate magazine, revealing the economic ideas behind everyday experiences.

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TEDxWarwick - Tim Harford - Management Lessons from the War in Iraq

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Tim Harford is an economist who writes about economics theories behind our daily lives in books and as a Financial Times columnist. All of his books have been sold worldwide and widely translated, namely "The Undercover Economist" that has sold one million copies.

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Tim Harford - Trial, Error and the God complex

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Tim Harford - Trial, Error and the God complex

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Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex

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http://www.ted.com Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems -- and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes.

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http://www.ted.com It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers. To illustrate, he uses behavioral economics and hilarious examples.

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Hans Rosling: The best stats you've ever seen

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You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."

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Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing.

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Tim Harford: Preventing financial meltdowns

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Economic commentator and author Tim Harford presented a creative, challenging perspective on financial systems, drawing upon examples from oil rig explosions to nuclear disasters to make his point. He believes that by studying the triggers of major engineering accidents, we can draw lessons on how to help prevent crises in the financial world.

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Tim Harford: War Games and Armageddon, Pop-Up Ideas - BBC Radio 4

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Tim Harford tells the story of Thomas Schelling, an economist who helped America and...

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Life lessons from an ad man | Rory Sutherland

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http://www.ted.com Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.

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tim harford: the indiana jones of economics

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Tim Harford: The Indiana Jones of Economics, Pop-Up Ideas - BBC Radio 4

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Tim Harford tells the story of Bill Phillips - war hero, engineer, crocodile-hunter,...

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tim harford: the day the geeks took over poker

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Tim Harford: The day the geeks took over poker, Pop-Up Ideas - BBC Radio 4

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Tim tells the story of Chris Ferguson who applied game theory to poker and won - big time.

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Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box

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The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you'll see).