Information Literacy Toolkit: Resource for Teaching Faculty
This guide is intended to support University of Maryland faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants in incorporating information literacy into their courses.
Media Literacy Toolkit: Combating Misinformation, Disinformation, and Fake News
Media literacy is the set of abilities that an individual uses to evaluate the media they consume. Check out the following resources to help support your teaching on media literacy, including misinformation, disinformation, and fake news.
Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.
The Learn to Discern: Media Literacy Trainer’s Manual is a curriculum for educators in formal and informal education environments. It provides step-by-step guidance and interactive exercises for helping learners of all ages recognize why and how manipulative content works and gain skills to reject half-truths, clickbait, hate speech, and fakes.
California State University, Dominguez Hills University Library created the Media & News Literacy tutorial, complete with short videos and instructor teaching materials regarding the tutorials.
This course from the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality addresses misinformation, offering instruction on specific contemporary technological phenomena and a broader media perspective.
Bibliography from Santa Fe Community College library complete with reports, videos, polls/surveys, and more focused on misinformation and media literacy.
News literacy is the ability to determine the credibility of news and other information and to recognize the standards of fact-based journalism to know what to trust, share, and act on. The News Literacy Project is a nonpartisan education nonprofit building a national movement to create a more news-literate America.
Temple University Libraries have compiled a list of lesson plans and classroom activities all focused on misinformation, disinformation, and fake news.
