NLP Educator Booklet - Flipbook - Page 11
“InfoZones”
Students learn how to differentiate between
six fundamental types of information:
news, opinion, entertainment, advertising,
propaganda and raw information.
Host: Tracie Potts, The Eisenhower Institute
and formerly of NBC News Channel
“Introduction to Algorithms”
“Press Freedoms Around the World”
Using an interactive map, students explore
the state of press freedoms in 22 nations,
including videos of journalists in 10 countries
recounting their reporting experiences.
Host: Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, NPR
Students interact with a mock social media
site and search engine to understand the
information that algorithms gather about
them to personalize what they see online.
Host: Nicco Mele, Draper Richards Kaplan
Foundation and the Harvard Kennedy School
“Making Sense of Data”
Students explore how they create,
interact with and are in昀氀uenced by data
in all aspects of their lives — and learn
how to evaluate the accuracy of databased claims and visualizations.
Host: Sisi Wei, The Markup
“The First Amendment”
Students learn why the First Amendment’s
昀椀ve freedoms are so vital to our democracy.
Through case studies, students weigh in
on U.S. Supreme Court decisions in which
these protections were challenged.
Host: Sam Chaltain, author and
First Amendment expert
“Misinformation”
Students gain an understanding of
various types of misinformation and the
ways they can damage democracy.
Host: Claire Wardle, Information
Futures Lab, Brown University
“Power in Art: The Watchdog
Role of Editorial Cartoonists”
Students learn about the history of editorial
cartooning as a unique and powerful form
of opinion journalism and practice analyzing
cartoons from the 1700s to the present day.
Host: Lalo Alcatraz, editorial cartoonist
“Understanding Bias” (two parts)
Students develop a nuanced understanding
of news media bias by learning about
different types of bias, how they manifest and
methods journalists use to minimize them.
Host: Indira Lakshmanan,
National Geographic
“Practicing Quality Journalism”*
Students demonstrate the standards
of quality journalism by playing
the role of reporter in a simulation
of a breaking news scene.
Host: Enrique Acevedo, CBS News
and formerly of Univision
*Ahora en español: Practicando
el periodismo de calidad
“What Is News?”
Students explore how journalists
“昀椀lter” information or determine which
events and issues to cover in a given
news cycle by using key criteria.
Host: Paul Saltzman, Chicago Sun-Times
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