Media+Literacy

= ARTICLES =

Ban the term 'fake news'
 * PDF of Study: Information Disorder

The Classroom Where Fake News Fails (NPR) Want to Resist the Post-Truth Age? Learn to Analyze Photos Like an Expert Would (Quartz Media) What is 'fake news',and how can you spot it? (G&M) (Quiz included) We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned (NPR) Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds (NPR) An Extremely Helpful List of Fake and Misleading News Sites to Watch Out For (New York Magazine) "Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning" [PDF Stanford History Education Group] The smell test: educators can counter fake news with information literacy - heres how (School Library Journal) How Media Literacy is critical to saving our democracy (eSchool News) Yale University Professors Discuss Facts, Fiction and the Media (InfoDocket Library Journal) Fact vs Fiction video Gustavus Adolphus College Fake News LibGuide (Gustavus Adolphus College) 21 Signs that Story You're About to Share is Secretly B.S. (Cracked - satirical) Digital Citizenship: News Literary in 2017 (digitalJLearning.org) Critical Analysis and Information Literacy (Edutopia) Teaching in a Post-Truth Era (Huffington Post) Did Media Literacy Backfire? Making Media Literacy Great Again One Gut Check and Four Steps Students Can Apply to Fact-Check Information Critical Thinking Skills are Necessary in These Not-So-Innocent Times

= WEBSITES =

Media verification sites:

 * Youtube DataViewer (Amnesty International)
 * FotoForensics.com

= PRINT/E-BOOKS =

//Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers (Excellent eBook with activities) // //The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters //, by Tom Nichols = VIDEO =

Curio.ca [|Disinformation and Lies : The Dangers of Fake News. January 2017] 5-Minute Film Festival: Teaching Digital Citizenship = = = TEACHING RESOURCES =

Lesson Plan: How to Teach Your Students About Fake News (PBS.org) Lesson Plan: Fighting Fake News (The Lowdown: Connecting Newsroom to Classroom / KQED) Bringing Digital Citizenship into the School Curriculum (Google lesson plans) The Adventures of Library Girl: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Librarians of Dedicated Defenders of Truth (Blog) Fact vs. Fiction / TED talks A List of More Than 30 Digital Citizenship Resources (Global Digital Citizenship) The News Literacy Project / Checkology Virtual Classroom Information Literacy Lessons Crucial in a Post-Truth World (Knowledge Quest) NAMLE / Resources (National Association for Media Literary Education USA) Web Literacy Education (November Learning) Web 2.0 Teaching Tools (RHSA Library Wiki Page) Media Literacy Now (USA) Be Internet Awesome (Google)
 * More lesson on PBSlearningmedia.org
 * 15 Lesson Plans for Making Students Better Online Researchers