Research and Course Guides: Fake News: Faculty Resources

Resources for Faculty

Media Literacy Now
Media Literacy Now is a "national advocacy organization for media literacy and digital citizenship education policy."
Media Literacy Through Critical Thinking
This document provides teaching materials on media literacy.

The Problem with Fake News (and how our students can solve it)

John Spencer describes himself as "a former middle school teacher and current college professor on a quest to transform schools into bastions of creativity and wonder." His focus is on design thinking and how this can change the way teachers and students approach education. Read more at his website.

Lesson Plan Ideas

CORA
CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments) is an open access resource for faculty and librarians. This particular lesson, entitled "Evaluating news sites: Credible or Clickbait?" teaches students how to evaluate if a news site is reliable.
MERLOT
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Training) is a program of the California State University System. Membership is free and members can submit materials which go through extensive peer review. This collection of materials is about fake news and finding and evaluating credible sources.
Mediashift.org's Education Tools & Tips Site
Articles that present examples of how professors have involved students in new media journalism projects, including fact-checking
Calling Bull
This is a class being offered at the University of Washington. The professors have everything online, including syllabus and readings.