FDU LibGuides: Communication Subject Guide: Media Literacy

How to Choose Your News

How to Choose Your News - Damon Brown by Ted-Ed via YouTube

John Green's Crash Course

Episode one of John Green's Crash Course devoted to Media Literacy. Hosted by Jay Smooth, a cultural commentator best known for his Ill Doctrine video blog. He is also the founder of the longest-running hip hop radio program, WBAI's Underground Railroad.

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The preview for John Green's Crash Course devoted to Navigating Digital Information.

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Library Girl's Tips for Spotting Fake News
Library Girl's (Jennifer LaGarde) infographic for helping students evaluate a news story.
IFLA's How to Spot Fake News
The International Federation of Library Associations' infographic for helping students evaluate a fake news story.
Common Sense Media 5 Ways to Spot Fake News Video
A video outlining five tips to help students evaluate news sources.
CARS Checklist for Evaluating Internet Sources
Created by Andy Spinks, a library media and instructional technology professional. A list of questions to help students evaluate information they find online.
NewseumED Flowchart: Is This Story Share-Worthy?
An Infographic and accompany lesson plan from the Newseum in Washington D.C. Helps students evaluate information by deciding if it is something they would endorse by sharing with others.
Kathy Schrock's Five W's of Website Evaluation
Created by educational technologist Kathy Schrock. Questions are modeled after the "five Ws" often used by journalists.
How to Fact Check with Google Using Reverse Image Search
A video by Common Sense Media that offers helpful tips for using Google's reverse image search to help students evaluate information.
Web Evaluation: Does This Website Smell Funny to You?
A kid-approved version of the CRAAP Test, designed to help students evaluate websites.
The CRAAP Test
A widely used information evaluation tool developed by libraries at the Meriam Library at California State University, Chico.
Here's How to Outsmart Fake News in Your Facebook Feed
A series of recommendations from journalists to help users recognize suspicious news stories.
EasyBib: 10 Ways to Spot a Fake News Article
A list of questions to help students evaluate information.
Fact Check Like a Pro
An infographic created by Indiana University East for helping students evaluate news stories.
The Problem with Fake News and How Our Students Can Solve it
A video created by educator, John Spencer. Five C's of Critical Consuming for helping students evaluate a news story.
FactCheck.org: How to Spot Fake News
Video with tips for helping students evaluate a news story.
IMVA/IN
Created by the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University. A set of tips with an acronym mnemonic to help students evaluate a news story.
Evaluating Sources Using the RADAR Framework
Created by librarians at the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University. A framework similar to the CRAAP Test for helping students evaluate information.
Top Six Red Flags that Identify a Conspiracy Theory Article
Created by patent attorney and founder of Ad Fontes Media, Vanessa Otero. Series of tips to help students identify a conspiracy theory within a news story or article.
The Future of Fake News
Five essential questions for identifying bias in a news story.

FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
Snopes.com
Snopes.com is an independent publication owned by Snopes Media Group. Fact checking and original, investigative reporting.
Whois Lookup
DomainTools offers this search site as a way to learn more about a website based on its domain or IP address.
Hoax-Slayer
Primarily debunking and publishing educational articles on hoaxes and scams. This site also provides a resource where you can search to check the veracity of email and social media messages.
Fact Checker
An online column from The Washington Post newspaper.
FotoForensics
This site enables you to submit an image to determine if it has been manipulated.
Hoaxy
Search by trending news topics and popular claims, and visualize how they are being spread on platforms like Twitter.

Factitious
JoLT: A collaboration between American University's GameLab and School of Communication. View stories with or without their sources before choosing fake or real.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Can You Spot the Fake News Story?
Created by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Chennel One News. A quick quiz to test your ability to pick a fake news story from a real one. Lesson plans included.
Penguin Books: Can You Spot Fake News?
Created by Penguin Books and inspired by Daniel Levitin's book 'A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics', this quiz focuses on the ways statistics and "dodgy science" are used to mislead.
BBC News: Can You Spot the Fake News Stories
Created by BBC News, this quiz gives users an interesting take on how fake news in the U.S. is viewed in Great Britain.
Real or Fake?
Created by PundiFact, a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and other who speak up in American politics. Their quiz asks you to evaluate the attributes of a story you've found elsewhere, and then warns of potential red flags.
Fake News Self-Assessment
This quiz was created by the authors of 'Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News'. It gives you a series of news stories that appear as they would on your smartphone. They ask you to label each on as "real" or fake", based on how the story is presented.

All of these helpful fact-checking tools, frameworks, and self-assessments came from Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins' 2018 book, Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News.

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Communication Subject Guide: Media Literacy

How to Choose Your News

John Green's Crash Course

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