Порфирьева Ирина Витальевна

The author of the article notes that in today's era of digital noise from the Internet and social media, educators need practical strategies to develop critical thinking skills in students to help them identify historical fakes. The article reveals three key rules for working with sources: authorship and purpose analysis (“Who and Why?”), cross-checking (“Connections”), and identifying anachronisms (“Aliens from the Future”), illustrating them with specific examples. The author provides a detailed description of various types of historical sources (written, material, visual, and oral) along wi...