Information, News & Media Literacy Resources

February 17, 2020 - Featured Carousel, Information, Literacy, Media Literacy - Tagged: news literacy

Updated February 24, 2020

I am collecting resources (a work in progress…) around the web that will help raise awareness, learn about the topics of information, news, and media literacy with videos, article, games, podcasts, books and miscellaneous resources.

You might want to bookmark this post and return to look for any additions to the list.

Awareness

How News Literate Are You?
A Reminder That ‘Fake News’ Is An Information Literacy Problem – Not A Technology Problem by Kalev Leetaru
Information, Media & News Literacies: Word Bank by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Professional Trolls and Subliminal Information by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
More Dangerous than Technology by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Information & Media Literacy for 2020 and Beyond by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

Learn

Learn how to spot fake faces at a glance
Tips to become media literate by Erik Palmer
Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation by PBS- Connecticut Public Television
SIFT (The Four Moves) by Mike Caulfield
How to know what to trust? (PDF) by The News Literacy Project

Games

Which Face is Real?
by University of Washington as part of the Calling Bullshit project.
Our aim is to make you aware of the ease with which digital identities can be faked, and to help you spot these fakes at a single glance.
Troll Factory
Troll Factory shows you first-hand how information operations work on social media. The goal of the game is to illustrate how fake news, emotive content and bot armies are utilized to affect moods, opinions and decision-making.
The Bad News Game
From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.
Which is Legit?
Can you spot the knock off? Test your ability to recognize and distinguish “fake news” sites from those of legitimate, standards-based news organizations.

Articles

The Fact Checkers Dilemma: Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview by Adrian Bardon
Prebunking interventions based on the psychological theory of “inoculation” can reduce susceptibility to misinformation across cultures. | HKS Misinformation Review
Alternative Facts, Misinformation, and Fake News by Springer

Podcasts

Future Skills for Fact-Checking Online Fakes HMH Learning Moments: Shaping the Future podcast series
The Challenge of Teaching News Literacy Edsurge Podcast
The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 112 Critical Media Literacy And Fake News In Post-Truth America

Psychology behind it…

How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain by Brett Beasley, Scientific American
The fact-checker’s dilemma: Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview by Adrian Bardon- Nieman Foundation at Harvard

Fact Checking Sites

Snopes
Science: Hypothesis
Science: Climate Feedback
Politifacts- The Poynter Institute
Top 10 sites to help students check their facts by ISTE
The 8 Best Fact-Checking Sites for Finding Unbiased Truth by Megan Ellis
Tools that fight Disinformation Online (Bot/spam detection, Codes and standards, Credibility scoring, Disinformation tracking Education/training, Verification Whitelisting)
Reverse Google Image Search
TinEye– another reverse image search

Educator Resources

Turn Students into Fact Finding Web Detectives by Common Sense
News Media Literacy by Erik Palmer
Media Literacy Now
Guide to Finding Fakes and Facts (PDF)
It’s Time To Go Mobile While Teaching News Literacy by Darren Hodgins & Jennifer LaGarde
News Bias Explored
News and Media Literacy Collection by PBS
Journalism, Fake News & Disinformation by Unesco (PDF)
Breaking News, Media Manipulation, and Mis- and Disinformation by Common Sense
False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources (Google Doc)

Making Debunking Visible

Six Fake News Techniques and Simple Tools to Vet Them by Global Investigative Journalism Network
Julie Smith’s Debunking Video YouTube Playlist