Information+Literacy

Information Literacy Resources

Leanna has shared some helpful information for teaching students about information literacy. This might be helpful as you introduce the sustainability in the news assignment, or the governance week activity.

One of my favorite sites is Common Sense Media - @https://www.commonsense.org/education/

It’s geared toward teachers. Specifically, lessons for teaching grade bands:

@https://www.commonsense.org/education/toolkit/news-and-media-literacy

I also love Kathy Schrock’s stuff - very hands on and also geared toward teachers

@http://www.schrockguide.net/

More specifically:

@http://www.schrockguide.net/information-literacy.html

She has a really easy website evaluation guide: @http://www.schrockguide.net/uploads/3/9/2/2/392267/5ws.pdf

@http://www.schrockguide.net/critical-evaluation.html

From the NYT: @https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/learning/lesson-plans/evaluating-sources-in-a-post-truth-world-ideas-for-teaching-and-learning-about-fake-news.html?mcubz=0&_r=0

@https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/skills-and-strategies-fake-news-vs-real-news-determining-the-reliability-of-sources/