News Literacy

1-Introduction to News Literacy
2-A Brief History of Disinformation
3-What the Research Says about Students' Media Literacy
4-Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles, and Likes, Oh My!
Do Your Students Know There Is a Problem?
The Age of the Citizen Journalist
5-The Stages of Research: A Model
Wonder
Investigate
Synthesize
Express
Review
6-Lessons for Developing Information Literacy
Developing Research Questions
Lesson 1: Question Stems
Lesson 2: The QFT
Lesson 3: What Is My Bias?
Lesson 4: Primary Source Close Reading
Lesson 5: Text, Context, and Subtext in Primary Sources
Lesson 6: Agree and Disagree with Primary Source Authors
Lesson 7: What Is This Source?
Lesson 8: Source Evaluation
Lesson 9: Which Source Does the Job?
Lesson 10: How Can Two Writers Reach Such Different Conclusions?
Lesson 11: Editorials, Op-Eds, and Blogs, Oh My!
Lesson 12: Reading for Editorial Bias
Lesson 13: Not All Editorials Are Essays
Lesson 14: Opinion in Many Forms
Lesson 15: Parody and Satire
Lesson 16: Propaganda, Hoaxes, and Other Forms of Manipulation
Lesson 17: Analysis of Social Media as a Tool for Persuasion
Lesson 18: Fact-Checkers
Lesson 19: Anatomy of a Stump Speech
Lesson 20: Unpacking a Visual Text-Paintings
Lesson 21: Unpacking a Visual Text-Photographs
Lesson 22: Building Capacities for Critical Thinking by Fostering Empathy
Lesson 23: Branding and Advertising
Lesson 24: Expose the Trail
Lesson 25: Protection by the First Amendment
Lesson 26: Media Watch
Overcoming Student Resistance to Close Reading
7-Citations Are a Tool for Source Evaluation
Appendix 7A: Bibliography Feedback Comment Bank
Appendix 7B: MLA 8 Self-Guided Instruction-Checks
Appendix 7C: Bibliography Quiz
Appendix 7D: Bibliography Checkbric
8-Big Takeaways
9-A Longer Unit of Study
Unit 1: Should I Share This?
Unit 2: How Can Something Be Both Biased and Meaningful?
Unit 3: Why Can't I Separate the Medium from the Message?
Unit 4: Problem-Based Learning: How Can I Use Digital Media for Good?
10-Rubrics
Works Cited
Index