Understanding Information and Disinformation: An Open Access Module

This semester, I am teaching our department’s introduction to history course. I’ve put together a number of digital modules that I will share in future blog posts. One of the first modules that I put together for them is “Understanding Information and Disinformation.”

I’ve made it available for teachers, parents, and others who might like to work through the module themselves. Below us a description and a link to the module:

Central to any historical work is reading, interpreting, and analyzing texts (whether these texts are written, visual, audio, etc.). Because of this, historians have to read texts very closely, sifting for valuable information and clues.

This course module has been created to help students better understand the nature of disinformation, misinformation, and mal-information.