NEWS ACCURACY AND CREDIBILITY
Here are some Project Look Sharp resources that can help you lead students in a thoughtful analysis of how to question news reports for accuracy, credibility and sourcing.
CLASSROOM LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES
1) Is Obama a Muslim? Sources and Credibility – comparing an anonymous email, a university fact checking site, a political blog post, a campaign web site and a newspaper investigative story - in the kit Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns <https://www.projectlooksharp.org/front_end.php?resource_id=143> – 2008 (ELA + Social Studies)
2) Hydrofracking, Media and Credibility – comparing documentary film and satirical news programming - in the kit Media Construction of Sustainability: Fingerlakes <https://www.projectlooksharp.org/front_end.php?resource_id=218> (Science)
3) “Celebration" or “Protest” - comparing TV news reports in the kit Media Construction of the Middle East <https://www.projectlooksharp.org/front_end.php?resource_id=235> – Unit 3 (Global Studies)
4) Discourse or Disinformation? – analyzing the accuracy, credibility and bias in edits to a government report, a clip from a documentary film, and articles in a newspaper and scientific journal - in the kit Media Construction of Global Warming <https://www.projectlooksharp.org/front_end.php?resource_id=188
5) Cochabama Water For Sale - analyzing newspaper and magazine articles and press releases - in the kit Media Construction of the Environment: Resource Depletion https://www.projectlooksharp.org/front_end.php?resource_id=297 (Environmental Studies)
6) BP Oil and Gulf Fisheries - comparing newspaper headlines and video news reports - in the kit Media Construction of Sustainability: Food, Water & Agriculture https://www.projectlooksharp.org/front_end.php?resource_id=208(Science and Environmental Studies)
VIDEO OF CLASSROOM MEDIA ANALYSIS:
Examining Credibility and Bias in Websites - 7 minute video demonstration of classroom constructivist media decoding <http://www.projectlooksharp.org/index.php?action=videos&category=media_decoding> from the kit Media Construction of Martin Luther King Jr.
ARTICLE:
NCSS Position Paper on Media Literacy <http://www.projectlooksharp.org/Articles/ncsspositionstatement.pdf> - National Council for the Social Studies, by Chris Sperry and Frank Baker, 2016
PLS AS A RESOURCE:
Project Look Sharp has compiled a list of resources on evaluating information using the CRAAP Test and ACCORD Checklist. Please view our website here.