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# Research - Media Literacy

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### KEY 

📽 Video      📜 Worksheet      🤔 Activity/ Thinking Routine     🔗 Website / Link

### Locate, organize, analyse, evaluate, synthesize and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media (including digital, social media and online networks)

[Get students to create Infographics to present data in a visually appealing way](http://piktochart.com/) 🔗

[Media Skills: Crash Course Media Literacy #11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-A-sCIMpg) 📽

[Video Explores What Fake News Is and Isn’t (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/artifact/video-explores-what-fake-news-is-and-isnt/) 📽🔗

[From the Front Page to the History Books (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/activity/from-the-front-page-to-the-history-books/) 🔗🤔

[Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5YKW6fhlss\&t=1s) 📽

[Evaluating Evidence: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxhbOvR2TGk\&t=1s) 📽

[Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o93pM-b97HI\&t=1s) 📽

[The Facts about Fact Checking: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZsaA0w_0z0) 📽

### Demonstrate awareness of media interpretations of events and ideas (including digital social media)

[Political Persuasion: It’s All About Image](https://newseumed.org/activity/political-persuasion-its-all-about-image-mlbp/)  🤔🔗

["How light or dark is Barack Obama's skin? Depends on your political stance…" This great article shows how different media sources portray people's race differently and why](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-light-or-dark-is-barack-obamas-skin-depends-on-your-political-stance) 🤔🔗

[How beauty ideals change around the world](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3198325/How-beauty-ideals-change-world-Designers-asked-create-perfect-woman-Photoshopping-photo-different-results.html) 🔗

[Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o93pM-b97HI\&t=1s) 📽

[Reporters Notebook - facts and feelings ](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Reporters%20Notebook_0.pdf) 📜🤔

### Make informed choices about personal viewing experiences

[A great article for older students "How The MPAA Really Works And How to Get The Rating You Want"](http://www.indiewire.com/article/how-the-mpaa-really-works-and-how-to-get-the-rating-you-want-20140702) 🔗🤔

[idebate - This house believes reality television does more harm than good](https://idebate.org/debatabase/culture-culture-general-media-modern-culture-television/house-believes-reality-television) 🤔

[Legit-o-meter Poster](https://d1e2bohyu2u2w9.cloudfront.net/education/sites/default/files/tlr-asset/hs-legitposter_8.5x11.pdf) 🔗📜

[Video Explores What Fake News Is and Isn’t (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/artifact/video-explores-what-fake-news-is-and-isnt/) 🔗📽

[Cooking Up Clickbait - Activity (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/activity/cooking-up-clickbait-mlbp-aca/) 🤔🔗

### Understand the impact of media representations and modes of presentation

[TED ED Lesson - How to choose your news](http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-choose-your-news-damon-brown) 🤔🔗📽

[YouTube - How to Identify Fact vs. Opinion in Writing & Research (Imagine Easy Solutions)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTZjqOU_6Vc) 🔗📽🤔

[Weed Out Propaganda - Poster and Activity (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/activity/weed-out-propaganda-mlbp/) 🔗🤔

[Evidence: Do the facts hold up - activity which has students check accuracy in a news article (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/activity/evidence-do-the-facts-hold-up-mlbp/) 🔗🤔

[Video Explores What Fake News Is and Isn’t (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/artifact/video-explores-what-fake-news-is-and-isnt/) 🤔🔗📽

[Political Persuasion: It’s All About Image](https://newseumed.org/activity/political-persuasion-its-all-about-image-mlbp/) 🔗🤔

[How the Medium Shapes the Message (Activity)](https://newseumed.org/activity/medium-shapes-the-message-mlbp/) 🔗🤔

[What Would You Do? Media Ethics Scenarios (Activity)](https://newseumed.org/activity/media-ethics-scenarios-mlbp/) 🔗🤔

[Evaluating Photos & Videos: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7uvqb8fcdA) 📽

### Seek a range of perspectives from multiple and varied sources

[Thinking Routines - Circle of View Points: exploring perspectives](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Circle%20of%20Viewpoints_0.pdf) 🔗🤔📜

[Question Ladder - I want to collect input from others by getting to the heart of what motivates people](https://drive.google.com/a/aischool.org/file/d/0B3ZX4a8gtxF4U0kxVFBoUmg3TXc/view?usp=sharing) 📜

[Who Can You Trust? Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o93pM-b97HI\&t=1s)  📽

[Reporters Notebook - facts and feelings ](https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Reporters%20Notebook_0.pdf) 📜🤔🔗

### **Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats**

[Have students self select the presentation tool they would like to use to present their information and reflect on the choices they have made](https://docs.google.com/a/aischool.org/presentation/d/1UaaInd7-fh0cVh4rFhXL7j3hxoeFx-Po5voE_A0GL3k/edit?usp=sharing)  🤔🔗

[How the Medium Shapes the Message (Activity)](https://newseumed.org/activity/medium-shapes-the-message-mlbp/) 🤔🔗 📜

[How to Podcast](http://blog.listenwise.com/2017/05/podcast-class-podcasting-class-part-1/) 🔗🤔

[Creating Killer Facts and Graphics](https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/253013/ml-guideline-creating-killer-facts-graphics-221112-en.pdf?sequence=17) 🤔🔗📜 

[Planning Research for Influencing](https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/620756/rg-planning-research-influencing-diagram-colour-en.pdf?sequence=3) 🤔🔗

### Compare, contrast and draw connections among (multi)media resources

[From the Front Page to the History Books (Newseum)](https://newseumed.org/activity/from-the-front-page-to-the-history-books/) 🤔🔗

[Evaluating Photos & Videos: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7uvqb8fcdA) 📽

[Evaluating Evidence: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxhbOvR2TGk\&t=1s) 📽

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