LibGuides: Teaching Media Literacy, "Fake News," and Disinformation: Home

Resources for Your Class

These open educational resources can be integrated into your courses.

Citizen Literacy
An online toolkit featuring short videos, handouts, and activities. From the University of Louisville libraries.
Calling Bull
An open-access course syllabus with resources and class recordings.
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
An open-access textbook by Mike Caufield.
Media Literacy: Navigating the News Landscape
This Canvas module has been built by Randall Library. You will be able to preview the module before importing it into your Canvas course and will also be able to modify/customize it after importing. If the link does not work, search for "Media Literacy: Navigating the News Landscape - Randall Library."
News Literacy Project
Resource for educational materials on the smart consumption of news and information.

Evaluating Information

The information literacy instruction provided to UNCW students in their first year seminar emphasizes the careful evaluation of sources. The video below summarizes the principles taught to students. You can help by reinforcing and expanding on these principle in more advanced classes.

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Teaching Media Literacy, "Fake News," and Disinformation

Associate Director, Academic & Research Engagement

Resources for Your Class

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Evaluating Information