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Committed to teaching students how to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports; sponsored by Stony Brook School of Journalism.

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Center for News Literacy - Bringing crucial critical thinking skills for the 21st century to teachers and students

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Five online lessons on fact-checking and online verification. Created by Mike Caulfield (WA State University)

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In this course, we show you how to fact and source-check in five easy lessons, taking about 30 minutes apiece. The entire online curriculum is two and a half to three hours and is suitable homework for the first week of a college-level module on disinformation or online information literacy, or the first few weeks of a course if assigned with other discipline-focused homework.

Once students have completed the starter course they can move on to any number of additional topical modules we will be rolling out. The topical modules go into more depth on skills, and explore specific social issues around information pollution.

Each lesson has multiple pages and activities. After clicking through to each lesson, you can use the list of links at the bottom of the first page to navigate, or just click through using the "Next up:" link under the main text.

This course is built so that it can easily copied and modified by teachers wishing to customize it. For more information on creating your own custom version, see the Teacher's Notes. The Notes also contain information on Accessibility

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Lesson One: Introduction to SIFT Lesson Two: Investigate the Source Lesson Three: Further Investigation Lesson Four: Find Trusted Coverage Lesson Five: Trace Claims, Quotes, and Media to Their Original Context Note: The canonical version of this course exists at http://lessons.checkplease.cc. The text and media of this site, where possible, is released into the CC-BY, and free for reuse and revision. We ask people copying this course to leave this note intact, so that students and teachers can find their way back to the original (periodically updated) version if necessary. We also ask librarians and reporters to consider linking to the canonical version. As the authors of the original version have not reviewed any other copy's modifications, the text of any site not arrived at through the above link should not be sourced to the original authors.
Development of this website concept funded in part by RTI International and the Rita Allen Foundation via the Misinformation Solutions Forum Prize. Neither organization is responsible for the content of this site.

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In this course, we show you how to fact and source-check in five easy lessons, taking about 30 minutes apiece. The entire online curriculum is two and a half to three hours and is suitable homework for the first week of a college-level module on disinformation or online information literacy, or the first few weeks of a course if assigned with other discipline-focused homework.

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Lessons and resources to help students navigate today's online environment; distinguish credible sources and apply critical thinking skills. Developed by the News Literacy Project, Stony Brook University of Journalism.

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Start Learning | Checkology Virtual Classroom | News Literacy Project

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Can your students tell the difference between fact and fiction? Checkology® virtual classroom's news literacy lessons, exercises and challenges can help!

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Civic Online Reasoning (Stanford University)

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Civic Online Reasoning (Stanford University)

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The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help students learn to evaluate online information.

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Curriculum Index | Civic Online Reasoning

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Browse lessons, assessments, and collections

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News & Media Literacy Resource Center - Common Sense Education

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News & Media Literacy Resource Center - Common Sense Education

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A collection of news and media lessons, videos, printables, and resource links curated by Common Sense Education.

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Prepare your students for tomorrow's headlines with our free news & media literacy activities and inquiry-based lessons lessons.

From viral trends to breaking news on social media, students must learn to navigate a noisy, biased, and challenging world. But with the right support, they can learn to be critical and not cynical, to practice empathy, and to speak up, not sit back. This collection of Common Sense's free news & media literacy lessons, videos, and classroom activities will help you get started teaching these important and complex ideas in the classroom.

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News and Media Literacy Resource Center | Common Sense Education

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Prepare your students for tomorrow's headlines with essential news and media literacy lessons, videos, printables, and more. Get a just-right resource for your classroom.

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PBS Learning Media: This collection includes videos, lessons, articles that help students identify, analyze and evaluate news and information from online sources.

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News and Media Literacy | PBS LearningMedia

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This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy is an essential skill for all students across a range of subjects, from Science to Social Studies to English Language Arts.

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Teaching Tolerance: Digital and Civic Literacy Skills

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Teaching Tolerance: Digital and Civic Literacy Skills

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Provides lessons and curricular resources from an organization committed to educating children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy

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The internet is an amazing tool for teaching and learning. But, before we can teach students to harness its power and become good citizens of the web, we need to understand the intricacies of how it works and how it can be manipulated to mislead and even harm users.
Learning the Landscape of Digital Literacy

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Digital and Civic Literacy Skills The internet is an amazing tool for teaching and learning. But, before we can teach students to harness its power and become good citizens of the web, we need to understand the intricacies of how it works and how it can be manipulated to mislead and even harm users.

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A Canadian project which supports informed citizenship by helping students learn contemporary digital information literacy skills. Provides videos, lessons, case studies and activities. (Click "go to site" to leave You Tube)

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Lesson plans, digital artifacts, videos, historical events, interactives, and other Ed tools cover media literacy and freedom of speech.

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Common Sense Education: Digital Citizenship

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Common Sense Education: Digital Citizenship

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Free Digital Citizenship lessons for grades K-12. These lessons were designed and developed with the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Common Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

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A variety of lessons and resources that help students learn how to critically analyze a range of media examples and their representations of race and ethnicity, class, gender and sexual orientation.

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why media matters

Key facets of identity - like gender, social class, age, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, religion, and disability - play prominent roles in the media we consume and create, determining how we see, understand, and experience the world and those we encounter in it.
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Key facets of identity -- like gender, social class, age, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, religion, and disability -- play prominent roles in the media we consume and create, determining how we see, understand, and experience the world and those we encounter in it.