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GetNewsSmart®2 - News Media Literacy
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Unit 1
Lesson 1: What is News (media) Literacy & Why Does it Matter?
1.1.2 - Judging Reliability
1.1.3 - The Communications Revolution
1.1.4 - The Comm Revolution 3
1.1.5 - Speedier Communication
1.1.6 - The Challenge for Consumers
1.1.7 - The Challenge for Consumers 2
1.1.8 - Reviewing Lesson 1
Lesson 2: The Power of Information
1.2.2 - The Universal Need For Information
1.2.3 - The Struggle to Control Information
Lesson 3: Know Your Neighborhood
1.3.2 - VIA - Verification
1.3.3 - VIA - Independence & Accountability
1.3.4 - Is it VIAble?
1.3.5 - Is it VIAbility Results
1.3.6 - Reviewing Lesson 3
Lesson 4: What is News and Why?
1.4.2 - Definitions of News
1.4.3 - The Universal News Drivers
1.4.4 - Editorial Judgement
1.4.5 - Balancing Importance & Interest
1.4.6 - The Audience, Needs & Wants
1.4.7 - Reviewing Lesson 4
End of Unit 1
Unit 2
Lesson 5 - News Vs. Opinion
2.5.2 - The Line Between News & Opinion
2.5.3 - The Opinion Journalists
2.5.4 - The Ethics of the Opinion Pages
2.5.5 - A Short History of Opinion Journalism
2.5.6 - Cable TV News: An Opinion Niche?
2.5.7 - The Value of Opinion Journalism
2.5.8 - Why Should You Care Which is Which?
2.5.9 - Opinion or Mere Assertion?
2.5.10 - Lesson 5 Review
Lesson 6 - Balance, Fairness, and Bias
2.6.2 - Is the News Media Biased?
2.6.3 - Balance in the News
2.6.4 - When Providing Balance is Unfair
2.6.5 - What is Fairness?
2.6.6 - Fair Language
2.6.7 - Fair Presentation
2.6.8 - Applying Fairness & Balance
2.6.9 - Reviewing Lesson 6
Lesson 7 - Bias in the News
2.7.2 - Common Flaws in "Bias" claims
2.7.3 - Audience Bias
2.7.4 - Reviewing Lesson 7
Lesson 8 - Journalistic Truth and the Search for Evidence
2.8.2 - What is Truth?
2.8.3 - What is Journalistic Truth?
2.8.4 - The Process of Verification
2.8.5 - Evaluating Direct and Indirect Evidence
2.8.6 - How and Why Does Verification Fail?
2.8.7 - Opening the Freezer
2.8.8 - Reviewing Lesson 8
End of Unit 2
Unit 3
Lesson 9 - Source Evaluation
3.9.2 - How to Evaluate Sources
3.9.3 - Applying Independence
3.9.4 - Evaluating Self-Interest
3.9.5 - M & V - Evaluating Multiple Sources Who Verify
3.9.6 - A/I & N - Authoritative and Named
3.9.7 - Reviewing Lesson 9
Lesson 10: Deconstructing the News
3.10.2 - Context & Transparency
3.10.3 - Transparency
3.10.4 - Deconstruction Example 1
3.10.5 - Deconstruction Example 2
3.10.6 - Deconstruction Example 3
3.10.7 - Lesson Review
Final Assessment
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