Making sense of the news is more important than ever-Why is information so powerful?
Why news literacy matters
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Power of information
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Recommended resources: Power of information
Shoot the messenger: Why journalists become targets
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Recommended resources: Why journalists become targets
Making sense of the news is more important than ever-With great power comes great responsibility
Communication models and media
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Definitions: "Social media" and "News cycles"
News cycles in the age of social media
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What is news and who decides?-What makes journalism different from other types of information?
What makes journalism different
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Information Neighborhoods
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Recommended resources: Information neighborhoods
Blurred lines
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Recommended resources: Blurred lines
What is news and who decides?-What makes some information newsworthy?
Universal news drivers
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Recommended resources: What makes news
Editorial judgment
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Exercise: Editorial judgment
What is news and who decides?-[Optional] Learner survey
Tell us more about yourself [optional survey]
Where can we find trustworthy information?-What do journalists mean by truth?
Truth
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Recommended resources: Truth is provisional
Evidence
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Recommended resources: Evidence and fact checking
Why verification fails
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Where can we find trustworthy information?-Are you calling me biased?
What is media bias?
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Recommended resources: Understanding bias
Cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias
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Recommended resources: Testing our own bias
Opinion journalism and bloviation
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Recommended resources: Opinion journalism
Says who?-Is being balanced being fair? Not necessarily.
How do we find fairness?
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Recommended resources: False equivalence
Says who?-Says who?
The importance of sources
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Recommended resources: Sources
Evaluating sources: IM VAIN
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Recommended resources: What makes a source reliable
Evaluating anonymous sources
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Recommended resources: Anonymous sources
How do I apply news literacy skills?-News literacy deconstruction basics
News Deconstruction Steps
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Debunking the viral news
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Recommended resources: Debunking
Recommended resources: Fake news
How do I apply news literacy skills?-Applying the basics to different information media
News best covered by print
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Recommended resources: Stories for print journalism
Stories that benefit from images, audio and video
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Recommended resources: Power of images
Power of new media
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Recommended resources: Online news
Meeting the challenges of digital citizenship-Beyond the news literacy basics
Numbers in context: Opinion polls and surveys
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Numbers in context: Health science
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Recommended resources: Essential statistics guide for smart news audience
News angles
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Meeting the challenges of digital citizenship-[Optional] Exit survey
How did you find the course? [optional survey]