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A Community Discussion Guide for Evaluating Claims
A ninety-minute facilitation guide for running a claim-evaluation discussion in a library, congregation, or community group without it becoming an argument.
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Media Literacy
How news and media are produced, and what that means for the way you read them.
Media literacy is the practice of reading a news story, a video, or a social post the way an editor reads a draft. You look at who produced it, what they claim, what evidence they show, what they left out, and how the language steers you. It does not require distrust of journalism. It requires reading closely enough to tell strong reporting from weak reporting.
This page collects everything published under media literacy: 4 lessons, 3 practice exercises, and 6 printable resources, alongside any articles and reports that draw on it.
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What the Evidence Supports in Community Media Literacy Programming
A short evidence review for libraries, schools, and community organizations planning free media literacy sessions, with confidence levels attached to each finding.
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Source Evaluation Worksheet: Lateral Reading in Five Fields
A structured worksheet for evaluating an unfamiliar publisher in about five minutes, with space to record what you found and what you still do not know.
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A Community Discussion Guide for Evaluating Claims
A ninety-minute facilitation guide for running a claim-evaluation discussion in a library, congregation, or community group without it becoming an argument.
Report
What the Evidence Supports in Community Media Literacy Programming
A short evidence review for libraries, schools, and community organizations planning free media literacy sessions, with confidence levels attached to each finding.
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Classroom Lesson Plan: Evaluating a Source in Fifty Minutes
A single-period lesson plan for secondary classrooms, with timings, a modelled demonstration, differentiation notes, and an exit ticket.
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Library Workshop Outline: Two Sessions, Two Hours Each
A two-part workshop outline for public library programming, with room requirements, promotion language, and a plan for participants who arrive only once.
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Source Evaluation Worksheet: Lateral Reading in Five Fields
A structured worksheet for evaluating an unfamiliar publisher in about five minutes, with space to record what you found and what you still do not know.
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Seven Questions Before You Share: Printable Checklist
A one-page checklist of seven questions to run before forwarding content, sized for printing, pinning, or saving to a phone.
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How Images Lose Their Original Context
Recontextualized photographs mislead more often than manipulated ones. Here is how it happens and how to trace an image back to its origin.
Think Lab
Spot the Missing Context
Practice identifying the specific missing piece that makes a statistic or a quotation uninterpretable.
Think Lab
Evaluate a Source
Practice lateral reading on a fictional organization: what to do first, and how a funding finding should change your reading.
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How to Evaluate an Online Source
Lateral reading in practice: how to judge an unfamiliar website or account in about two minutes by leaving the page rather than studying it.
Think Lab
Analyze a Headline
Practice reading three headlines for what they establish, what they imply, and what they leave for the article to prove.
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How to Read a News Story Critically
A repeatable six-pass method for reading a news story: claim, sourcing, evidence, framing, omissions, and confidence.
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News Story Reading Checklist: Six Passes
A printable card summarizing the six-pass method for reading a news story, with the question each pass asks.
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Seven Questions to Ask Before You Share
A thirty-second checklist that catches most of the content people later regret passing along, without requiring you to become a fact checker.
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Related subject areas
- Digital Literacy: How platforms, feeds, and search results decide what reaches you in the first place.
- Critical Thinking: Separating what is observed, what is inferred, what is assumed, and how confident to be.
- AI Literacy: What changes, and what does not, when content is produced or altered by AI systems.
- Information Manipulation: The recurring techniques used to mislead audiences, and how to name them.
- Information resilience: calibrating confidence and updating on new evidence.
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