Research Guides: Fake News: Teaching Materials

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In the wake of the "fake news" phenomenon, several professional and academic organizations have begun creating instruction materials to checkmark aid educators in teaching media and news literacy.

Below are some resources which have been selected by SCC Librarians. Contact the SCC Library if you're interested in collaborating to create customized instruction sessions for your class.
SCC Library reference desk: 533-8821

Tools from Journalists & Media Professionals

Center for News Literacy: Digital Resource Center/Curriculum Toolbox
The News Literacy Project
National Association for Media Literacy Education
NewsGames (from JoLT at American U.)
An ever-growing vault of games including supplemental mediums for traditional journalism and free-standing independent works. JoLT is a collaboration between American University’s GameLab and School of Communication tasked with exploring the intersection of journalism and game design.

eBooks

Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Author, Michael A. Caulfield, is Director of Blended and Networked Learning at WSU, Vancouver
Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communications

Tools from Historians

Stanford History Education Group
"SHEG is a collaboration among many people: full-time staff, graduate student RAs, practicing teachers, and undergraduate volunteers and interns. SHEG sponsors an ongoing research group for students across the university interested in issues of how history is taught and learned. We also host visiting scholars whose work addresses issues of historical understanding and history education."
Stanford Researchers Find Students Have Trouble Judging the Credibility of Information Online

Tools from Library & Information Professionals

Fake News Workshop (Nicole Cooke)

Great resources from U of Washington

Classroom / Workshop Activities (UW Library)
Calling Bullshit: In the Age of Big Data
This course from professors at UW is completely available for free online.
Research Guide: Savvy Info Consumers: Fake News
From UW LIbraries
Research Guide: News: Fake News
From UW LIbraries

Teaching & Learning

News Literacy Project
Multiple teaching resources including videos and educational modules addressing school shootings and the media as well as other topics
Stanford History Education Group
"SHEG is a collaboration among many people: full-time staff, graduate student RAs, practicing teachers, and undergraduate volunteers and interns. SHEG sponsors an ongoing research group for students across the university interested in issues of how history is taught and learned. We also host visiting scholars whose work addresses issues of historical understanding and history education."
Teaching Web Evaluation: A Cognitive Development Approach
Candice Benjes-Small, Alyssa Archer, Katelyn Tucker, Lisa Vassady, Jennifer Resor Whicker, from Communications in Information Literacy, 7.1, 2013.