Media Literacy
ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSING ON MEDIA LITERACY EDUCATION
Remember we are all students and information is power.
Civil Online Reasoning
News Literacy Project
Poynter Institute
Facts or Fake, Media Misuse Today Recording of October 2020 LWV Comal Area public program
LESSONS IN MEDIA LITERACY
Scroll through GCF FreeLearn.org lessons in digital media literacy
Watch GCF FreeLearn.org lessons on YouTube
Journalism Ethics and Standards
The Library System at the University Washington maintains a well curated and current list of information on this topic.
Journalism Ethics and Standards
Evaluate the Source
Media bias and reliability ratings
This site analyses news sources and puts them on a scale of reliability and bias. How does your favorite news source stack up?
Four short videos that explain how you can be a factchecker.
Austin Community College SIFT method and instructions for reverse image searching.
"We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."
"We specifically hunt for trending stories, images, videos and posts that contain false information in order to fact check them quickly ."
"PolitiFact is a nonpartisan fact-checking website to sort out the truth in American politics. PolitiFact was created by the Tampa Bay Times, a Florida newspaper, in 2007. In 2018, PolitiFact was acquired by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit school for journalists. Use meter to rate statement from pants on fire to truth."
"Science Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists, registered in France, sorting fact from fiction in science based media coverage. Our goal is to help readers know which news to trust."
"When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes’ fact-checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always link to and document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds." Established in 1994, Snopes is one of the oldest factchecking website.
In less than three minutes this GCFLearnFree video describes Echo Chambers and how they lead to confirmation bias.
Confirmation Bias
Informative article from Simply Psychology
Filter Bubbles
In less than three minutes this GCFLearnFree video describes Filter Bubbles and the problems they cause..
FIND DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS
Flipside daily email showing different points of view
Read the Tangle daily newsletter summarizing best arguments from different points of view
Media Bias Ratings
News from the Left, Center, and Right
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