Educators

"Teaching media literacy requires teacher guidance and support from administration that this is important curriculum.” Kelly Mendoza, Common Sense Media

"Fake" News Video Playlist

What is media literacy?

How to separate fact and fiction online

Resources

Analyzing Images

Visual Literacy - Comprehensive overview from Frank Baker, published by ISTE.
Help Students Close Read Iconic Images - More from Frank Baker, via Middle Web, post includes links to excellent resources such as The Critical Thinking Consortium's video and comprehensive guide on how to interpret and analyze images. Visit Frank Baker's Media Literacy Clearinghouse for a treasure trove of easy to implement tips, resources, and lessons.
Media Literacy Pictures - Great slideshow collection from high school English teacher Jordan Kohanim.

Evaluating Sources

What Is a Reliable Resource Anyway? - From KQED, slideshow presentation includes built-in quiz.
Media Bias Chart, 4.1 - Vanessa Otero provides a visual representation of which direction popular media sources lean (Liberal, Minimal, Conservative) and also includes a blank template for your students to use when evaluating media sources.
Jonathan Haidt on Why We’re Convinced We’re Right (and everyone else is wrong!) - YouTube video - More appropriate to use with staff rather than students due to political spin.
C.R.A.P. Detector - From Mercer Library.

Hoax Websites

Questioning Fake News

Facebook to Ban "Deepfakes" - From BBC News.
News and Media Literacy Toolkit - From Common Sense Media, resources and lessons for K-12.

Newsflash: Be sure to checkout our Hoaxes and Fakes lesson!

How Do I Search for Reliable Resources - From KQED, an excellent slideshow. Lesson idea: Students could team up to find or create visuals to demonstrate the tip provided on each slide.
How Does Fake News Become News (Video) - From Teaching Tolerance.
False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources - From M. Zimdars
Evaluating Sources in a Post-Truth World: Ideas for Teaching about Fake News - From the NY Times Learning Network.
From the News Literacy Project - 10 Questions for Fake News Detection. Yes = red flag
Fact Checking Sites:
- Snopes - One of the first on-line fact-checking websites.
- Politifact - A fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. Check out the Truth-o-meter.
- FactCheck - Monitors the factual accuracy of political statements regardless of party affiliation.
- All Sides - Provides multiple angles on the same story.

Deepfakes

A World Without FaceBook - From Bayview Drive Films
Fake Videos of Real People and How to Spot Them - TED Talk from Supasorn Suwajanakorn
Can you tell a fake video from a real one? - From abc.net
Deepfakes are coming. Is Big Tech ready? - From cnn.net
How hard is it to make a believable deepfake? - From abc.net
You thought fake news was bad? Deepfakes are where truth goes to die - From The Guardian

Lessons

News and Media Literacy: An Educator's Toolkit - From Common Sense Education, a treasure trove of lessons and resources. (Grades K-12).
Be Internet Awesome - From Google, head to the Don't Fall for the Fake. (Grades 4-6).
Fighting Fake News - From Rachel Roberson, also as part of KQED Teach project (Grades 6-8).
How to teach your students about fake news - From PBS - includes a warm-up activity. (Grades 7-12).
Media Literacy with Tim & Moby - From BrainPop
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation - From National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) - ReadWriteThink.org (Grades 9-12).
Skills and Strategies | Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Resources - From the NYTimes Learning Network, tons of resources!
Evaluating Sources in a ‘Post-Truth’ World: Ideas for Teaching and Learning About Fake News - More from NYTimes Learning Network.
Be a Media Literacy S.T.A.R. - a worksheet for evaluating text and/or video news stories.

Lateral Reading

You're the Fact-Checker Now - From Stanford Alumni.
Is This Source Reliable? - Slideshow presentation, from KQED.
Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3 - Video from YA author John Green:

Lateral Reading - From Delaware County Community College (scroll down the find the Lateral Reading section.
Flex Your Fact-Checking Muscles: Read Laterally - Hyperdoc lesson from Gail Desler & Kathleen, geared to grades 6-9.