Suzanne Milton
Lessons and Learning Activities
From the website, Facing History and Ourselves, the first of two lessons that explore the ways in which biases affect news and information—how news is created and reported (by journalists and others) and how we interpret it. Designed for a 50-min class
From the website, Facing History and Ourselves, a lesson on reviewing news accounts about the killing of Michael Brown from the initial days following the shooting to get a sense of the ways that complex stories unfold over time.
Post Facto is a game where you're the fact-checker. Read the story that robot FactyPlex 5000 has been sharing on social media, and investigate the clues to determine if it's real - or fake! Post Facto is a creation of learning/game designer Amanda Warner and journalist/researcher Tamar Wilner, for the TruthBuzz creative fact-checking contest run by the International Center for Journalists.
An online quiz where you examine images of real social media content and decide whether it's from a legitimate account or an internet troll. From Clemson University Media Forensics Hub.
This group activity takes about 30 minutes and can be used for many different audiences by adjusting the examples used. Source: Benjes-Small, Candice. "Evaluating news sites: Credible or Clickbait?." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2016. https://www.projectcora.org/assignment/evaluating-news-sites-credible-or-clickbait.
A repository of assignment ideas and lesson plans focused on information literacy concepts. Try searching 'fake news' or 'misinformation.' In this workshop, students learn how to evaluate whether a news site is reliable. This group activity takes about 30 minutes and can be used for many different audiences by adjusting the examples used. All assignments contributed to this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike United States License