Research Help: Fake News: Resources for Educators

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False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources
by Melissa Zimdars, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media at Merrimack College

Also, check out Zimdar's Op-Ed for the Washington Post: My ‘fake news list’ went viral. But made-up stories are only part of the problem.

First Draft News
Your guide to navigating the digital information ecosystem. "First Draft is dedicated to improving skills and standards in the reporting and sharing of information that emerges online. [They] provide practical and ethical guidance in how to find, verify and publish content sourced from the social web. The focus of our work includes: misattributed and manipulated images that circulate widely online, eyewitness photographs and videos captured at the scene of a news event, claims and content shared on social media and on private messaging apps, hoaxes and fake stories generated for financial or political gain" (First Draft News, About Page).
Pew Research Center - Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology
This resource from the Pew Research Center includes a Political Typology quiz to help you identify your own political bias if you are unsure. While the questions are a little too black and white, this is a good activity to help you understand other political ideologies in addition to your own.

Stop Fake News By Making It

The Fake News Game & Lab's Contribution to Parliamentary Inquiry
Learn more about the Fake News Game created by the University of Cambridge and DROG.
Play the Game

Factitious!

To Test Your Fake News Judgment,
Play This Game

Member station Wyoming Public Radio for NPR reported on the creation of a game to test your fake news detection skills. Read the full story here. Click the link below to play!

Factitious
"Depending on how you swipe, Factitious provides feedback. Whether your swipe was correct or incorrect, whether the article cites sources that can be checked, whether the story includes direct quotes from credible sources" (Watson, 2017, para 7).

Classroom Exercises

How to Spot a Fake News Site in 10 Steps
by Claire Wardle | Research Director of First Draft, a nonprofit dedicated to building tools and resources to help people verify the information they are finding online.
Center for News Literacy Spring 2018 Course Pack
The full News Literacy course, developed at Stony Brook University, organizes the material into 8 concepts that are spread amongst our 14 week course that take students from the first information revolution of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press to the Digital Age of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. Each lesson stands alone or can easily be integrated into your program.
Metaliteracy Badging Project
Exercises and badges created by Trudi E. Jacobson, head of information literacy and a librarian at the University at Albany
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"The Metaliteracy badging project is designed with a focus on flexible, individualized learning. Here you will discover self-paced interactive quests and challenges through which you will learn how to produce, evaluate, select, and share information in ways that are useful to you. These quests will allow you to choose paths relevant to you as you navigate the constellation of available badges. Some of the skills and concepts that you will learn throughout this process include search strategizing, evaluation, information ethics, social identity, and metacognitive reflection. At the end of your quests, after completing all of the badges, you will have earned the final metaliteracy badge and will be a metaliterate learner!"
Common Sense Education
This resource includes games, lessons, and activities to teach responsible digital citizenship and media literacy.
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Assigned as homework or done together as a class, this digital workbook teaches students to understand and evaluate information they encounter online.

Civic Online Reasoning

Civic Online Reasoning Videos
Video tutorials produced by Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) on finding and evaluating information online.

Fake News: Resources for Educators

Videos

Resources

Stop Fake News By Making It

Factitious!

To Test Your Fake News Judgment, Play This Game

Classroom Exercises

Civic Online Reasoning

To Test Your Fake News Judgment,
Play This Game