News Literacy: More Resources

8 concepts of News Literacy spread amongst Stony Brook University's 14 week course. Each lesson stands alone or can easily be integrated into an existing program. Spring 2017.

Most content can be used to address Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts, which emphasizes on media literacy, narrative non-fiction, argument-based writing and primary source analysis. From KQED's collection of lesson plans for educators.

Lesson plan for a 30-minute group activity on evaluating news sites. Suitable for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. From Candice Benjes-Small at Radford University.

Reports 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.

Allows "students to fact-check, annotate, and provide context" to news.

From their J-school. Covers social media, fake news, and fact checking.

Includes evaluation of internet sources & social media. Their page for Propaganda vs Misinformation is great--includes case studies.

Has a great graphic that distills the basics.

Reports, links to fact-checking websites, a nice graphic, and library resources. From Harvard.

Has a tab that with a website screenshot & evaluation.

Includes some additional LibGuides, websites like Snopes and Politifact, and others. Not annotated.