Evaluating News Sources

Civic Reasoning in a Social Media Environment; from The American Federation of Teachers

"This Digital Resource Center is all about sharing the accumulating wisdom and materials of the News Literacy teaching community, which works to strengthen democracy by teaching students to pluck reliable information from the daily media tsunami." From the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University

Strategies for analyzing news sources, along with list of misleading or satirical news sources, from Merrimack College professor of communication and media, Melissa Zimdars.

This document provides teaching materials on media literacy. From the NW Center for Excellence in Media Literacy, based in the College of Education at the University of Washington

from The American Federation of Teachers

"This lesson revolves around reading and discussing Carl Sagan’s “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection” and then sending students to Snopes.com to explore the large archive of hoaxes, crazes and fake news stories there for a three fold purpose: 1) To examine and chart the features of fake news stories themselves; 2) To assess how Snopes itself assesses fake news through the lens of the principals of Sagan’s article; 3) To ourselves assess those stories using the skeptical tools and strategies that Sagan offers." From the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization. Recommended by RCC Instructor, Todd Thompson

The full News Literacy course, developed at Stony Brook University, "organizes the material into 8 concepts that are covered in our 14 week course that takes students from the first information revolution of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press to the Digital Age of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook." Each lesson stands alone or can easily be integrated into your program.

A Who-What-Where-When-Why-How infographic guide to asking the questions that matter when engaging with new information. From National Geographic