This tweet from President Trump is a great illustration for what I hope we could help students to learn about how to process and respond to information in today's world. A thread on critical thinking process and writing from that process. 
The first thing I'd want students to do is ask if those numbers are accurate in and of themselves, if that's really the GDP and unemployment rates. Second, I'd want them to ask if the larger claim is accurate, if it's the first time this has been true in 100 years. (It's not.)
But then, students must go further. They should know to ask whether or not this comparison is meaningful, and if GDP increase and unemployment rate are linked in ways that tell a larger story or have bigger implications. (They aren't, or at least not in the way Trump implies.)
As students go deeper, I'd hope that they get curious about the difference between quarterly and annualized GDP growth (this gets complicated, I don't fully understand it other than to know annual growth is always lower than these quarterly rates).
From there, I would ask students to write about anything related to the tweet, economics, politics, social media. They would craft an argument which launches from this claim, and in doing so would bring additional light to what Trump puts into the world.
It's not a mere debunking, that's easy, but a contextualizing and then expansion from the claim, to see the claim in a much larger sense, and to also orient the claim relative to their values and interests. Students would write from the angle they're most interested in.
We are in the midst of a shift in literacies. I think education, and particularly FYW needs to grapple with these shifts head-on and figure out how to make use of the material of the world to engage students and get them doing not just interesting, but important work.
Didn't necessarily intend wind up with me shilling for my book, which tries to approach writing from this angle, but here we are. The idea is to get students practicing the moves writers make via experiences like critically responding to that Trump tweet. amazon.com/Writers-Practi…
Also, if you're not aware of the work that @holden is doing in this area, I highlight his essential work here. chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/boo…
