Course curriculum

  • 1

    ADVANCE PREP WORK

    • Welcome!

    • Academy Agenda

    • What is News Literacy?

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

    • Practice Exercises and Teacher's Notes Chart

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

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

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

    • Shared Drive

  • 2

    DAY 1: Monday, July 15

    • ZOOM LINK (Monday, July 15)

    • Academy Agenda

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

    • IMVAIN Source Evaluation Rubric (please read for day 2)

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

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

    • Bio of guest speaker Lori Robertson (please read for day 2)

    • Shared Drive

  • 3

    DAY 2: Tuesday, July 16

    • ZOOM LINK (Tuesday, July 16)

    • Academy Agenda

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

    • Bias survey

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

    • Project Implicit (please complete for day 3)

    • Shared Drive

  • 4

    DAY 3: Wednesday, July 17

    • ZOOM LINK (Wednesday, July 17)

    • Academy Agenda

    • VIDEO: Eli Pariser on The Filter Bubble (optional)

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

    • Shared Drive

  • 5

    DAY 4: Thursday, July 18

    • ZOOM LINK (Thursday, July 18)

    • Academy Agenda

    • 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

    • Shared Drive

    • POST YOUR WORK HERE

    • Feedback survey

    • Shared Drive