Curricula
Featured Resource: Digital Resource Center
The Digital Resource Center, developed and curated by the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University, is a clearinghouse containing a collection of lesson plans, curriculum, lectures, exercises, and materials for K-12 educators, students, and college instructors.
Civic Online Reasoning (COR)
https://cor.stanford.edu/
The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.CTRL-F
https://ctrl-f.ca/en/
Named for the keyboard shortcut for ‘find,’ CTRL-F is an evidence-based program that equips students with the habits and skills needed to evaluate online information to determine what to trust. The approach is centered around learning and practicing three key lateral reading strategies that fact-checkers use.
Digital Citizenship Curriculum (Common Sense Education)
https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/curriculum
This K-12 curriculum was designed and developed in partnership with Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Each lesson offers digital dilemmas that students face today, giving them the skills they need to succeed as digital learners, leaders, and citizens tomorrow.
Digital Resource Center (Center for News Literacy, Stony Brook University)
https://digitalresource.center/college-university-level-resources
The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook has developed a model for teaching news literacy and created an undergraduate course that offers practical and digital tools to develop news literacy. This site features materials created for use in the course and includes a set of 14 lessons with PowerPoint presentations, course recitation guides , case studies, and related materials. You must register to access the free materials.Fact Finder (Newseum Ed) [Registration required]
https://newseumed.org/fact-finder-guide
This site offers 11 flexible, multimedia lesson plans that introduce essential media literacy concepts and help students apply the concepts to their own content creation. Plans include explainer videos and infographics. They also provide an accompanying News or Noise? Media Map that provides a collection of examples ready for students to analyze and evaluate with the support of worksheets and discussion prompts.
Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens (Coursera)
https://www.coursera.org/learn/news-literacy
Six week online course (~15 hours), available in English, Spanish, and Chinese, helps learners better identify reliable information in news reports. The course discusses the key elements of journalism from the viewpoint of the news audience. Offered by the University of Hong Kong and the State University of New York. Earn a certificate upon completion.
Media Bias Chart (AdFontes)
https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/
Ad Fontes, Latin for “to the source,” is a site that analyzes content of news and "news-like" content, including TV and podcasts content, to rate it's reliability and bias. The site includes lessons for educators.Project Censored
https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censoreds-commitment-to-independent-news-in-the-classroom/
Project Censored provides media literacy curriculums to help people evaluate for themselves the quality or significance of the news they receive. Project Censored’s work highlights the important links among a free press, media literacy, and democratic self-government.
Delivered during the school year, The Sift is a free weekly newsletter for educators that offers a rundown of the latest topics in news literacy — including trends and issues in misinformation, social media, artificial intelligence, journalism and press freedom. It provides discussion prompts, teaching ideas, classroom guides and a monthly video series that features professional journalists.