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Great tool for students knowing how to analyze information coming out of the media.

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Design and share beautiful flyers just like this one!

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Teaching Students (and Adults) News Literacy

Christine Clark

District Media Specialist

Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District

Lauren Schultz

Media Coordinator

Independence High School

Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle

Purpose

Our students live in a digitally connected world and receive much of their "news" from social media sites. Students must learn how to discern verified information from spin, opinion, propaganda and fake news. Today you will explore tools, lesson plan integration ideas, and digital resources that can be utilized to teach students how to think critically and effectively evaluate news and information.

Why do students need this skill?

A new study from Stanford evaluated students' ability to assess information sources and described the results as "dismaying," "bleak" and "[a] threat to democracy". Many assume that because young people live in a world surrounded by social media that they are equally knowledgeable about what is shared or posted on these sites. The researchers wrote: "Our work shows the opposite". Students need to learn that if "it's too good to be true" then it usually is and they need to have the tools to evaluate the sources. At the least, students need to learn to stop - take a breathe - and check a few key things before believing what they are reading.

Teaching news literacy skills does not apply to just news from social media. It is a great opportunity for cross discipline collaborations. English language arts can integrate news literacy skills while teaching close reading, annotating, comprehension and writing. Social studies can integrate news literacy skills while teaching DBQs, inquiry skills, close examination of history, world perspectives, government and cultures. Math, science and arts can integrate news literacy skills while understanding and creating data, charts, infographics and sharing that knowledge with the stakeholders.

What are the definitions?

News Literacy: The ability to access, analyze and evaluate news information in a variety of formats.

Propaganda(noun): Information that is often exaggerated or false and spread for the purpose of benefiting or promoting a specific individual or cause.

Fake news is, quite simply, news ("material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast") that is fake ("false, counterfeit") - #alternativefacts

Spin Journalism (noun): News and information that is manipulated or slanted to affect its interpretation and influence public opinion.

Opinion (noun): A belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.

Media Bias/Lean: A political bias in journalistic reporting, in programming selection, or otherwise in mass communications media.

Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

Confirmation Bias: the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.
Merriam-Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/

What are the resources available to teach this important critical thinking skill?

Together we will explore some of the linked resources below.

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Design and share beautiful flyers just like this one! Spread the word with an online flyer. They're easy to make and impossible to mess up :) Try it now Teaching Students (and Adults) News Literacy District Media Specialist Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District Media Coordinator Independence High School Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QLprqDL2fh7RMfgoR6RgqD9Wm-ceVWxbwF_fSjq8Ry0/edit?usp=sharing

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Use this tool/strategy to help enhance your student contracts.

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MAD-learn: K-12 Learn App Development | Education Mobile App Development

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Inspiring Student Creativity and Fostering appreneurship through Mobile Application Development (MAD-learn). This dynamic program allows students and teachers alike, to learn and execute on the fundamentals of mobile apps, including: ideation, planning, design, creation, development, marketing, launch and maintenance.

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simplebooklet.com - https://simplebooklet.com/publish.php?wpKey=kH9mWSQdGNFLEWyMUBVTmB#page=0

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canyoubreakthemold.weebly.com

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What happens when your students don't fit the mold? Join us to learn how to differentiate, individualize, and personalize your instruction so that EVERY STUDENT will learn EVERY DAY. Be prepared to...

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-Download the panorama app on Apple
-Thing Link now has an interactive option
-Google Cardboard Camera App (not 360 only panorama)
-Google Street View
-CoSpaces iO
-Panoform** Low tech version print out the pattern and use your name in front of the panoform account link.
-RoundMe.com create, post, and view
-360 Images4Schools on Flickr.com/groups
-Live Streaming in 360

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Panaform, Round me are some APPs to download

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Can You Break the Mold?
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Cara is an instructional technology facilitator for Wilson County Schools. She specializes in the 1:1 Chromebook initiative. She has been a technology facilitator for 8 years and is a former English teacher. She is a mother to three adorable children who keep her very busy when she is not working.

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Chrome Extensions to Make Life Easier Presentation - NCTIES

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NCTIES: Breakout the Box with Digital Lockboxes

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Notes to come, but tons of neat resources

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