Media Literacy and Fake News: Books and Videos

An open textbook by Mike Caulfield to help students evaluate information found on the internet. He identifies four "moves" in the process: Check for previous work, Go upstream to the source, Read laterally, and Circle back:.

This brief one-minute video gives five tips to help verify if information is real or fake. From CommonSense.org for grade 6 to adult.

A 2 1/2 minute video from the News Literacy Project, "The Easiest Quiz of All Time" reinforces the need to check your facts.

Educator Damon Brown narrates this 5 minute video about how the dissemination of news has changed and strategies for making sure you get the story straight. Grades 6-12.

John Spencer introduces the 5 C's of Critical Consuming (Context, Credibility, Construction, Corroboration and Compare.)

In this blog/podcast journalist David McRaney explores the research that suggest we have little awareness of why we act or think the way we do.