News Literacy: Checklists & Teaching Tools
For Classes
Worksheet on evaluating news sites (pdf), from
News Literacy: Credible or Clickbait.
Asks about the news source's "about us" page, the author, sources, advertising, and comments.
Leads to a conclusion: is the site credible?
Adapted from Candice Benjes-Small's checklist Evaluating news sites: Credible or Clickbait?
Worksheets
10 Questions for Fake News Detection (pdf), from the News Literacy Project.
Stanford Study
- Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online ReasoningReports on students' ability to judge credibility of information online. Includes some assessment tasks which can be tweaked for use in the classroom. From the Stanford History Education Group.
The Stanford History Education Group has identified 11 assessments from their report on Civic Online Reasoning.
- Look at their assessments & rubrics, and
- Download editable copies for use in your classroom
Topics include social media claims & website reliability.
Materials include guideline for student responses at three levels: beginning, emerging, and mastery.
Spotting Fake News
Alternative Facts and Fake News. Blog post about how libraries help battle alternative facts and fake news. From IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Amazing graphic is available as a pdf and jpg.
