LibGuides: Senior School Library: Digital Literacy and Misinformation

Digital Literacy Resources

Lessons and ideas on how to teach digital literacy and citizenship.

News Literacy Project for Educators
A collection of lessons, posters, and other resources for educators to use to teach students about misinformation and news literacy.
Young Voter's Guide to Social Media and the News
Great resource from CommonSense Media on spotting fake news and how to be media literate in a society saturated with different types of news, with a focus on voter information.
Quick Digital Citizenship Activities
A collection of brief lessons on digital citizenship for grades 6-12.

NLP Article: "When correcting the record, make a truth sandwich"
Discusses how to clearly address misinformation in order to have the greatest impact on the listener/reader. From the News Literacy Project.
WNYC "THe Breaking News Consumer's Handbook"
Valuable resource on how to address information as it is coming out during a crisis.
Four Moves and a Habit
From the Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers text, this infographic outlines how to quickly and accurately evaluate information.
Evaluating Sources in a Post-Truth World: ideas for teaching and learning about fake news
Collection of resources from the New York Times.

FactCheck.org
A project of the Annenburg Public Policy Center, this is a nonpartisan site that focuses on current events and fact-checking U.S. politics.
The Facts about Fact Checking
A useful and timely video on fact checking, brought to you by John Green and his Crash Course on Navigating Information.
How to Spot Fake News
Short and sweet, this video will guide you in how to quickly assess news sources.
Politifact
Rates a wide variety of journalism and media as false or true based on facts and evidence in an effort to combat misinformation.
Snopes
Site focused on evaluating what is true and not about current events and information shared on a variety of news media.

Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers
This eBook guides you through why and how to evaluate information quickly and accurately. Thought lengthy, it is definitely worth the time to explore!