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Crash Course Digital Literacy Videos

YouTube video series on Navigating Digital Information:

#1 Introduction to Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

#2 The Facts about Fact Checking: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

#3 Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

#4 Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

#5 Using Wikipedia: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

#6 Evaluating Evidence: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

#7 Evaluating Photos & Videos: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

#8 Data & Infographics: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

#9 Click Restraint: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

#10 Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

Reading List - PDF
A list of non-academic readings related to different aspects of the "fake news" debate, covering the impact of advertising, its role in the US election, the growing awareness of disinformation campaigns aimed at upcoming European elections, and some of the psychological theories that help explain why our brains can be so easily fooled. by FirstDraft News

News Literacy Project
This site contains quizzes and tips to test and strengthen your news literacy skills.
Hoaxy
Trace Your News Story's Spread Across Twitter (only last 7 days) and find out if you are keeping company with Bots instead of real news sources. Visualize the spread of articles via search finds claims and related fact checking from low-credibility and fact-checking sources.
MisinfoCon
MisinfoCon is a global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms. [Medium Publishing]
First Draft
First Draft News is a group of news media partners dedicated to helping reporters find and verify content that emerges online. Their site includes training guides for social media news gathering and verification.

Evaluating Information

"Can Students Evaluate Online Sources? Learning From Assessments of Civic Online Reasoning." Civic Online Reasoning through Stanford History Education Group "...created a range of short tasks that assess students’ civic online reasoning—the ability to effectively search for, evaluate, and verify social and political information online." https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rJTgyR3CXjC71JEzc5LjZoZrljN_1965/view?usp=sharing

Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning- Between January 2015 and June 2016, The Stanford History Education Group created assessments to test students, tanging from middle school to college-level, on civic online reasoning: "...the ability to judge the credibility of information that floods young people’s smartphones, tablets, and computers." https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fv751yt5934/SHEG%20Evaluating%20Information%20Online.pdf

Examining New Literacy

American Library Association webinar- Post-Truth: Fake News and a New Era of Information Literacy. Slides: https://www.programminglibrarian.org/sites/default/files/post_truth_webinar.pdf

PEN America: Knowing the news. Virtual media literacy activities to fight against misinformation

Penn State Library Fake News Workshop slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qJtaXYVVAsB13loXhpqC3CT0bmqUwXjRxfGOcVQObd8/edit#slide=id.p

SUNY Stony Brook School of Journalism News Media Literacy Program-College/University Instruction Resources: https://digitalresource.center/college-university-level-resources

Example: Deconstructing a Viral Video Lesson Plan): https://digitalresource.center/resource/deconstructing-viral-video-skydiving-without-parachute

Newseum Ed: Virtual Classes for College Students including “Fighting Fake News” and “Media Ethics”: https://newseumed.org/classes-training?unlock=ebgjpfis1R65p4Gos5 AND E.S.C.A.P.E.

Fake news downloadable Infographic: https://newseumed.org/sites/default/files/legacy/2017/05/NEWSEUM_ESCAPE_Poster_FINAL.pdf

University of Texas at Austin Center for Media Engagement - Discusses journalism, digital ethics, free speech, advertising, aesthetics, sports media, political communication, South Asia media, and health communication https://mediaengagement.org/vertical/media-ethics/

Common Sense Media Education: News Literacy Resources (lesson plans, videos, infographics): https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/news-literacy-resources-for-classrooms

Fact-Checking Tips and Tools for Teachers and Students: Resources for showing students where to look for credible information on the web. https://www.commonsense.org/education/teaching-strategies/turn-students-into-fact-finding-web-detectives

CoronaVirus Misinformation-debunking Websites

World Health Organization Coronavirus disease: Mythbusters
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public as well as myth busters. Facts also available as downloadable and sharable links.
FEMA Coronavirus Rumor Control
FEMA helps the public distinguish between rumors and facts regarding the response to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance Database
This database, hosted by the Poynter Institute, gathers all of the falsehoods that have been detected by the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus alliance. This database unites fact-checkers in more than 70 countries and includes articles published in at least 40 languages.
Politifact
PolitiFact is an independent fact-checking website created by the Tampa Bay Times newspaper to sort out the truth in American politics. In 2018, PolitiFact was acquired by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit school for journalists, and is self-sustaining.