Episode 48: Jacquelyn Whiting on Digital & Social Media Literacy

It’s never too early to start teaching our kids to be digitally literate. Jacquelyn tells us what we can do to help younger and older students learn what they need to know and shares a ton of terrific resources to boot.

Find Jacquelyn online

Twitter: @msjwhiting
Google Plus
Website: mediatedmessages.org

Resources

Lessons for developing civic on-line reasoning from SHEG
From Monica Brady-Myerov’s team atListenwise:Teaching Your Students About Fake News
How to choose your news” from Ted-Ed by Damon Brown
Christiane Amanpour:How to seek truth in the era of fake news from TEDGlobal
Here’s what happens when the readers choose the front page story” from Newswhip by Paul Quigley
The News Literacy Project
Fake or Real? Challenge from Dan Russell (SearchResearch)
The Phenomenon of Fake News from Newsela
Media literacy resources from NewseumED
Stony Brook University Center for News LiteracyDigital Resource Center
ISTE Digital CitizenshipProjects & Lessons
Society of Professional Journalists code of ethics
To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock Social Media” by Jenny Abamu in EdSurge, Oct 12, 2017
The Times Issues Social Media Guidelines for the Newsroom” by The New York Times, OCT. 13, 2017
Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy took kit for a ‘post-truth’ world” by Joyce Valenza

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