LibGuides: Hassenfeld Library: Teaching News Literacy

Teaching News Literacy

Civic Online Reasoning (Stanford)
Free lessons and assessments to help students understand how to evaluate online information.
Facing History and Ourselves: Educator Resources
Lesson plans and ideas for teachers wanting to address current issues, with a focus on racism, antisemitism, and prejudice.
SIFT: The Four Moves
A four-step process designed to instill good habits in students when reading or sharing news articles.
The News Literacy Project
The NLP offers several resources for teachers, including the Checkology curriculum and professional development opportunities.
Teaching Tolerance: Digital Literacy
A curriculum framework to help students develop digital and civic literacy skills.

How to Google Like a Pro
An infographic with 8 tips to help improve your Google skills.
The SIFT Method
Infographic about the SIFT Method for evaluating sources.

News & Current Events (HS)
This guide for HS students provides recommended news sources as well as great resources for checking news reliability and spotting fake news.
News & Current Events (MS)
This guide for MS students provides recommended news sources as well as great resources for checking news reliability and spotting fake news.

Transforming Discourse
A curriculum created by USN's own Freya Sachs, along with Vanderbilt's Elizabeth Meadows, funded by an E.E. Ford Leadership Grant. Transforming Discourse "proposes a framework that uses foundational texts coupled with current events—difficult ones—to explore how rhetoric and media (new and traditional) shape our understanding of topics and our ability for discussion and respectful disagreement."

Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information (series)
Created by John Green in partnership with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group (10 videos, 12-16 minutes each)
News Literacy: Identifying Fact from Fiction
Created by librarians Tom Bober, Michelle Luhtala, and Shannon McClintock Miller (1 hour)
News Literacy Project: Fall 2021 Webinar Series
Created by John Silva & the News Literacy Project (1 hour)

Books to Help Teach Information Literacy
A booklist covering news literacy, fake news, internal biases, and critical thinking.

A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel J. Levitin
Publication Date: 2016
Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data by Joel Best
Publication Date: 2013
News Literacy by Michelle Luhtala; Jacquelyn Whiting
Publication Date: 2018

NoodleTools
A great tool for taking notes and creating citations for footnotes and bibliographies.

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