LibGuides: Monroe 1&amp;2 Media Literacy: News Literacy

News Literacy Organizations

News Literacy Project
NLP, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.
Center for News Literacy
At the Stony Brook University School of Journalism

Developing Digital Detectives

Monroe 2 BOCES Region SORA Copy
If you teach in the Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES region, you can borrow a copy of this book through your SORA account.
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If you do not know how to access SORA, please contact Lindsay Neumire.
Monroe County Public Library
If you live in Monroe county, you can borrow a copy from the Monroe County Public Library.
Barnes & Noble
You can purchase a copy of this book from Barnes & Noble.
Amazon
Or you can get it cheaper on Amazon.
EVIDENCE LOCKER!
Essential Lessons for Discerning Fact from Fiction in the “Fake News” Era
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Other Media Literacy Organizations

NAMLE
The National Association for Media Literacy Education is the leading nonprofit membership organization dedicated to advancing media literacy education in the United States.
Project Look Sharp
Teach your students to think critically about media of all types with Project Look Sharp's Constructivist Media Decoding techniques and lesson plans.
Stanford History Education Group
SHEG has made major contributions in the area of Media Literacy with multiple studies done on how students navigate online media, and having written an entire curriculum on Civic Online Reasoning.

For Younger Students

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Lied to You as a Child
Article by Cara Giaimo from Atlas Obscura, Dec. 26, 2016
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“In fiction, we suspend all kinds of disbelief in service to a larger truth,” she says. “If, in pursuit of that truth, a pig must fraternize with an elephant, then so be it.”
Classroom Activity: Is it "checkable"?
Activity from News Literacy Project
Designed for Grades 4-6
Truth, Lie, Opinion Game
Activity created in Google Slides that you can use, copy, and remix with your own questions.
I taught my 5th-graders how to spot fake news. Now they won’t stop fact-checking me.
By Scott Bedley, from Vox posted Mar 29, 2017
How this educator gamified media literacy and fact checking for his 5th graders.

Rand - Truth Decay

Countering Truth Decay
The line between fact and fiction in American public life is becoming blurred. RAND calls this phenomenon "Truth Decay," and our researchers are studying its causes, consequences, and how to counter it.

A RAND Initiative to Restore the Role of Facts and Analysis in Public Life.
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The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.

Philanthropic contributions support our ability to take the long view, tackle tough and often-controversial topics, and share our findings in innovative and compelling ways.

RAND's research findings and recommendations are based on data and evidence and therefore do not necessarily reflect the policy preferences or interests of its clients, donors, or supporters.

Funding for this research initiative was provided by unrestricted gifts from RAND supporters and income from operations.

News and AI

January 2024 Presentation

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Click here to open the presentation with our notes

Below are links from inside the presentation (for some reason the links didn't copy over into the .pdf.)

National News Literacy Week PSA: Stop the Flood

Featured Teaching Resources

The Sift, NLP’s free weekly newsletter for educators — delivered during the school year — explores timely examples of misinformation, addresses media and press freedom topics and discusses social media trends and issues. It also includes links, discussion prompts and activities for use in the classroom.

Check out the most recent edition:

The Sift: Beware of ‘cheapfakes’ | Taylor Swift disinfo

Civic Online Reasoning, a project of the Stanford History Education Group, provides resources for teaching lateral reading skills. Download a single lesson or the full curriculum. Either way, you get classroom-ready materials. Integrate lesson plans into existing curriculum or teach as a separate module.

Quizzes from News Literacy Project

You can take these quizzes and remix them however you want.

Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3

Asking people to “do the research” on fake news stories makes them seem more believable, not less
Article from Neiman Lab about the importance of how you search laterally and the danger of data voids.

Emotional Triggers in Headlines

Source: Research Shows News Headlines Have Gotten More Negative | AllSides

Activities & Lesson plans

What's Going On in This Picture?
From the New York Times Learning Network
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Photos are posted every Monday. Discussion ensues throughout the week, until the big reveal on Thursday afternoon.
News Literacy Resources from Common Sense Education
Need to Know News vs. Nice to Know News
Lesson plan from PBS News Hour helps students think through different types of news stories.
How to Teach Your Student About Fake News - Lesson Plan
Lesson plan from PBS NEWSHour Extra gives students skills they need to navigate the media and spot fake news.
PBS NewsHour Classroom
Daily lessons incorporating news stories happening right now. Includes media and questions to ask students.

Image Investigation

Verifying Content from First Draft
Turn your students into Detectives with this fun online challenge. Students will be presented with an online picture and a question to answer about it. See how well they do!

Detecting Bias

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AllSides™ is a media solutions company that strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation. AllSides exposes people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world — and each other.

Fact or Opinion?

Quiz: How well can you tell factual from opinion statements?
Quiz from Pew Research- 10 questions
Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News
How well did adults do with identifying facts and opinions from the news? Results broken down and analyzed by demographics.

Monroe 1&2 Media Literacy: News Literacy