NLP Educator Booklet - Flipbook - Page 10
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Checkology lessons
“Arguments & Evidence”
Students experience the information
aftermath of a 昀椀ctional event as it
unfolds on social media, learn about 昀椀ve
common logical fallacies, then evaluate
the evidence in several arguments.
Host: Kimberley Strassel, The Wall
Street Journal
“Democracy’s Watchdog”
“Be Health Informed”
Students discover how to make sense of the
health and wellness information vying for their
attention — and how to avoid being misled.
Host: Dr. Melissa Clarke,
the Be Health Empowered Group
Students delve into the historic
watchdog role that a free press has
played in the United States by exploring
a collection of investigative reports
spanning more than a century.
Host: Wesley Lowery, The Marshall project,
and formerly of The Washington Post
“Be the Editor”
This interactive lesson tests students’
news judgment skills by challenging them
to select the most newsworthy stories
to feature on the homepage of their
news site, then explain their choices.
“Branded Content”
Students understand the relationship
among advertisers, the news media and
the public, and they debate the ethical
implications of new forms of marketing.
Host: Emily Withrow, The New York Times
“Evaluating Science-Based Claims”
Students learn how to recognize
science-based claims and evaluate their
credibility using the FLOATER method;
they also explore science journalism and
consider why people deny science.
Host: Melanie Trecek-King, Massasoit
Community College, Brockton, Massachusetts
“Citizen Watchdogs”
Students discover the ways that they and
others can document and expose wrongdoing,
including monitoring news coverage for
breaches of journalism standards, by
examining a series of case studies.
Host: Tamerra Gri昀케n, formerly of Rest
of World and BuzzFeed News
“Harm & Distrust”
“Conspiratorial Thinking” (two parts)
This lesson seeks to help people
understand the factors that allow
conspiratorial thinking to take hold
and conspiracy theories to 昀氀ourish.
Host: Renée DiResta, research manager
at the Stanford Internet Observatory
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Teaching news literacy
This lesson explores the historical failure
of mainstream news organizations to
serve all people equally, the legacies of
distrust this has caused among speci昀椀c
groups in America — particularly Black
Americans — and recent efforts by news
outlets to improve their coverage.
Host: Natalie Y. Moore, author and
journalist, WBEZ/NPR, Chicago
