Is It News?

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Digital Literacy and Computer Science

Grade(s)

7

Overview

Are your students savvy searchers? Can they spot the difference between a straight news article and an opinion piece? Do they recognize bias in their sources … or in themselves?

Do you need Fact Finder: Your Foolproof Guide to Media Literacy’s 11 flexible, multimedia lesson plans to tackle these challenges. Eight skill-building lesson plans introduce essential media literacy concepts through engaging explainer videos and colorful infographics that help students revisit, retain and apply the key concepts. The accompanying News or Noise? Media Map provides a collection of examples ready for students to analyze and evaluate with the support of worksheets and discussion prompts. Three reporting lesson plans help students take what they’ve learned and apply it to their own content creation, inspired by the issues that matter to them.

A simple flowchart and video explain how to differentiate news from other types of information; then students put their news-spotting abilities to the test.

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Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 7

DLCS18.7.13

Compare and contrast information available locally and globally.

UP:DLCS18.7.13

Knowledge

Students know:
  • culture, government, and media can affect how data is shared and presented.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • research a topic, finding web resources authentic to a geographic location for the purposes of comparing that data to information available locally: within our country, state, county.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • many factors drive what information is shared by media.
  • data shared may not be unbiased, accurate, or truthful.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 7

DLCS18.7.23

Demonstrate the use of a variety of digital devices individually and collaboratively to collect, analyze, and present information for content-related problems.

UP:DLCS18.7.23

Knowledge

Students know:
  • that often there exists a devices that will be better for a task than another device.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • use multiple devices to research and collect data to compile a presentation.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • in research, the tool used is less important than the information gathered.

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

Newseum

License Type

Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

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Newseum
https://newseumed.org/tools/lesson-plan/it-news

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