V99 N6 kappanonline.org 27 The online lives of young people Photo: iStock A fter the 2016 election, the nation’s most prominent news organizations launched efforts to help Americans navigate the deluge of information — much of it false or misleading — that floods their phones, tablets, and laptops. “Here’s how to outsmart fake news in your Facebook feed,” blared a CNN headline (Willingham, 2016). The Washington Post provided “the fact checker’s guide for detecting fake news” (Kessler, 2016), and the Huffington Post instructed readers on “how to recognize a fake news story” (Robins-Early, 2016). And the response went well beyond the publication of how-to guides. From the campuses of Silicon Valley tech giants to the halls of the U.S. Capitol, corporate leaders and policy Why we need a new approach to teaching digital literacy To assess the credibility of the information they find online, students shouldn’t start with a close reading of the given website. Rather, they should turn to the power of the web to determine its trustworthiness. By Joel Breakstone, Sarah McGrew, Mark Smith, Teresa Ortega, and Sam Wineburg