Course curriculum

  • 1

    ADVANCE PREP WORK

    • Welcome!

    • ACADEMY AGENDA

    • What is News Literacy?

    • VIDEO: Stephanie Busari on How Fake News Does Real Harm

    • VIDEO: Navigating the DRC Video and the DRC "Get Started" Page

    • VIDEO: John Oliver on "Native Advertising" (watch in preparation for a day 1 workshop)

    • Information grids (read in preparation for a day 1 workshop)

    • Shared Drive
  • 2

    DAY 1: Monday, July 17

    • ZOOM LINK (Monday, July 17)

    • Breakout groups

    • Practice exercises

    • Teacher notes chart

    • VIDEO: Stanford History Education Group on "Civic Online Reasoning in Action" (please watch for day 2)

    • VIDEO: Stanford History Education Group on "Click Restraint" (please watch for day 2)

    • Brian Thevenot, "Myth-making in New Orleans" (Please read in preparation for day 2)

    • Bio of guest speaker Scott Higham (please read for day 2)

    • Shared Drive
  • 3

    DAY 2: Tuesday, July 18

    • ZOOM LINK

    • Practice exercises

    • Teacher notes chart

    • Quiz: How well can you tell factual from opinion statements? (please complete for day 3)

    • Survey on bias in the news (please complete for day 3)

    • George Turklebaum (Please read in preparation for day 3)

    • Project Implicit (please complete for day 3)

    • Shared Drive
  • 4

    DAY 3: Wednesday, July 19

    • ZOOM LINK

    • Practice exercises

    • Teacher notes chart

    • Eli Pariser on The Filter Bubble (optional)

    • Stanford assessment (optional reading in preparation for day 4)

    • Shared Drive
  • 5

    DAY 4: Thursday, July 20

    • ZOOM LINK

    • Teacher notes chart

    • PRESENTATION: Seal of Civic Readiness, prepared by Christy Radez, Lead Facilitator of the Civic Readiness NYSED Initiative and NYS Co-Director of the Essential Elements Schools

    • POST YOUR WORK HERE

    • Feedback survey

    • Shared Drive