LibGuides: *MEDIA LITERACY*: RESOURCE ARCHIVE

LESSONS/SLIDE DECKS

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News Literacy Slides Presentation by Kathleen Currie Smith @kcurriesmith
Ledyard Teachers: Kathleen would be happy to teach this lesson to your students. ksmith@ledyard.net

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BREAK THE FAKE BY MEDIA SMARTS

Teaching Resources

Many of these articles have great links to further resources, lessons and ideas.

C-SPAN: Lesson Idea: Media Literacy and Fake News
December 16, 2016
AWESOME ideas!!
This is one of videos featured in lessons.

Can Your Students Spot Fake News? Here are 43 Links to Help
This list was created by Julie Greller and contain some duplicates from this LibGuide.
Digital Pedagogy Lab: Truthy Lies and Surreal Truth : A Please for Critical Digital Literacies
December 8, 2016
Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
Executive summar Stanford History Education Group produced with the support of the Robert R. McCormick Foundation
Evaluating Sources in a ‘Post-Truth’ World: Ideas for Teaching and Learning About Fake News
New York Times, January 19, 2017
Lots of great resources and links.
Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age
Entire Unit devoted to News Literacy from Facing History and Ourselves
consists of 11 lessons and 12 original videos with 28 subject matter experts that explore how implicit biases shape our understanding of the world, and how news literacy skills and concepts can help students find reliable information to make decisions, take action, and become effective civic participants in today’s complex information landscape.
False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources
© 2016 by Melissa Zimdars.
The work 'False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources'
is made available under a Creative Commons
Highlights from Facing Ferguson
KQED: Lesson Plan: Fighting Fake News
Media Matters for America: Understanding The Fake News Universe A Guide To Fake News Terminology
December 15, 2016
The News Literacy Project
NLP helps young people gain the tools to discern credible news and become lifelong learners.
PBS NewsHour: Lesson plan: How to teach your students about fake news
Smithsonian: The Remedy for the Spread of Fake News? History Teachers
December 6, 2016
Stonybrook Center for News Literacy
***Digital Resource Center
Teaching Information Literacy Now
School Library Journal, November 28, 2016
Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world
School Library Journal, November 26, 2016
Media Literacy Clearinghouse
***#1 Online Source for Educators
Project Look Sharp
***Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College, working in collaboration with local school districts, New York State BOCES, the National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and other national media literacy organization.
Intro to Historical Thinking Lesson Plans
***Stanford History Education Group
SchoolJournalism.org
News, information & media literacy lessons
Center for Media Literacy

More about the News (and "fake news")

Making Sense of the News YouTube Playlist
YouTube Video Playlist curated by Masato Kajimoto, journalism educator/researcher at the University of Hong Kong, specializing in multimedia storytelling & news literacy
NBC News: Fake News: How a Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies
December 9, 2016 - video
PBS NewsHour: How online hoaxes, fake news played a role in the election
November 17, 2016 - video
TEDEd: How to Choose Your News
TEDEd: How False News Can Spread

ABCNews: When Fake News Makes Real News Headline
About a fake story which was treated as real news. Traces some of the pipeline for developing and distributing fake news
The Atlantic: The Food Babe, Enemy of Chemicals
An examination of claims made by The Food Babe, with pointed analysis by professor Kevin Folta of the University of Florida
CNN: Fake News, Real Violence
"Pizzagate" was a fake news story which connected a pizzeria with a child pornography ring allegedly run by Hillary Clinton and John Podesta. On Sunday, December 3, 2016, an armed shooter entered the pizzeria and fired a shot before being accosted by the police.

Also check out the News Literacy Pinterest Board from @ColonelsLibrary.