LibGuides: Secondary Reference Sets: Media and News Literacy Resources

Overview

Media and News Literacy

What is Fake News?

The Four Types of Fake News.

Never be Fooled!

Media and News Literacy Resources

These are excellent resources for teaching media and news literacy to students.

Checkology - The News Literacy Project
Four self-paced lessons for students, using short videos and interactive activities.
Evaluate Resources - OSLIS
From the Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS).
Common Sense Media - For Educators
Teach students how to thrive in the digital age with free, research-backed lesson plans
Digital Literacy and Fake News
Resources compiled by Keith Thomson, GSS TL.
Yes, Digital Literacy. But Which One?
This is a MUST READ for all teachers who wish to understand and teach information and digital literacy. The author explains that effective digital literacy instruction recognizes that domain knowledge is crucial to literacy and that students need knowledge of how to use specific web tools and techniques.
You can't evaluate your sources if you know nothing about the topic and don't understand how the internet works.

Sites to practice resource evaluation.

Topic: Salmon and Fish Farming

Pediatrics (Children's Medicine)

Evaluate these two sites. How do they compare?