This is a curated list of resources for teaching and learning news and media literacy.
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- A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind, David J. Helfand (Columbia University Press, 2017)
- Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, Kevin Young (Graywolf Press, 2018)
- Calling Bullshit, Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West (Penguin Random House, 2020)
- Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, Lucas Graves (Columbia University Press, 2016)
- Internet Literacy Handbook, Council of Europe (2017)
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- The News: A User’s Manual, Alain de Botton (Pantheon, 2014)
- The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time, Brooke Gladstone (Workman Publishing, 2017)
- Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era, Daniel J. Levitin (Penguin Random House, 2017)
- Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, Michael A. Caulfield (Pressbooks, n.d.)
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- AllSides
- Arizona State University News Co/Lab
- Better News (American Press Institute & Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative)
- Center for News Literacy @ Stony Brook Uni. Sch. of Journalism
- Center for Countering Digital Hate (UK)
- Co-Inform
- Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)
- Common Sense Education
- Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI)
- Facebook Journalism Project
- Google News Initiative
- National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) (US)
- Media Literacy Now
- National Literacy Trust (UK)
- News Integrity Initiative @ the CUNY Newmark J-School
- News Literacy Project
- Project Origin
- Social Science One
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Sarah Blakeslee. 2004. The CRAAP Test, LOEX Quarterly, Volume 31: Issue 3, Article 4.
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The CRAAP Test is a simple, practical framework for evaluating the credibility of information. It involves asking questions about the information's Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose.PDF
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Caroline Jack and Monica Bulger. 2017. Lexicon of Lies: Teaching Resources, Data & Society Research Institute.
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5 tips for fact-checking datasets (Poynter)
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A Field Guide to "Fake News" and Other Information Disorders (Public Data Lab)
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#BotSpot: Twelve Ways to Spot a Bot (Digital Forensic Research Lab @ Atlantic Council): some tricks to identify fake Twitter accounts.
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Checkology (News Literacy Project): a virtual classroom where middle and high school students develop news literacy skills.
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Fact-checking for educators and future voters (FactBar EDU)
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Fake News and News Bias (Boston University Libraries): guides on fact checking and bias recognition.
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First Draft Resource Hub (First Draft): guides on resources for news gathering, verification, reporting, etc.
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The Full Fact Toolkit (Full Fact): a collection of simple tools for identifying misleading videos, images, headlines, etc.
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History Lessons (Stanford History Education Group): "...teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading."
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Fake news and critical literacy resources (National Literacy Trust): a series of fake news and critical literacy teaching resources for parents, and primary and secondary educators.
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Método de Verificación del Debate Público (Chequeado)
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Misinformation Review (Harvard Kennedy School)
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News & Media Literacy Curriculum Resources (Common Sense): learning resources and classroom activities for Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.
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Novedades del área de Educación (Chequeado)
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Slowing the infodemic: How to Spot COVID-19 misinformation (NAMLE)
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Courses
- Fact-checking, Better News |
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- Fact-Checking and Debunking: Covering Rumors, Hoaxes and Gossip, Poynter (Craig Silverman)
- Getting It Right: Accuracy and Verification in the Digital Age, Poynter (Craig Silverman)
- Hands-on Fact-checking: A Short Course, Poynter (Jane Elizabeth & Alexios Mantzarlis) |
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- Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens, Coursera (Masato Kajimoto & others | University of Hong Kong & SUNY)
- News Literacy Primer: How to Evaluate Information, Poynter (Pam Hogle)
- Practical Data Ethics, Fast.ai |
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- Verification, Google News Initiative |
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- Fact-checking, Better News |
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Exercises, Games & Quizzes
- Can You Spot the Deceptive Facebook Post? (New York Times)
- Daily Quizzes to Train Your Verification Skills (Bellingcat)
- First Draft Observation Challenge (First Draft)
- First Draft Geolocation Challenge (First Draft)
- The News Hero on Facebook (The News Hero)
- The Perils of Perception (Ipsos)
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Reference & Fact Check
- Africa Check Info Finder
- Data.gov
- Data.gov.uk
- FAO Statistics
- Full Fact Finder
- Internet Archive
- Pew Research Center - Journalism & Media
- WHO World Health Data Platform
- World Bank Open Data
- Apps
- FactStream, by Duke University
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- Logically, by Logically
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Google Play
- Newstrition, by our.news
App Store
- FactStream, by Duke University
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Videos
- How to Spot Fake News (FactCheck.org)
- News Literacy Project
- Matter of Facts (Deepnews.ai)
- Fake news related podcasts @ Uni. of Oxford
- The Fake News Podcast by Freddie Quinne?
Spotify
TuneIn
- Soundcloud Playlist
- 25 May 2020, Fact-Checking in a Post-Truth World (Bellingcat)
- European Commission, Tackling online disinformation
- Commission on Fake News and the Teaching of Critical Literacy Skills, 2017. Fake news and critical literacy.
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- Council of Europe. 2017. Internet Literacy Handbook.
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- European Audiovisual Observatory, 2017. Mapping of media literacy practices and actions in EU-28: EAO report.
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- European Commission, 2018. Synopsis report of the public consultation on fake news and online disinformation.
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- National Council for the Social Studies, 2018. Social Education September 2018.
Papers
- Rand Corporation, 2021. Media Literacy Education to Counter Truth Decay
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- Reuters Institute, 2018. The Impact of Greater News Literacy (in Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018).
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- Stanford History Education Group, 2016. Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning.
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