Middle school students will use the InfOhio resource - Points of View Resource Center - to research and create a presentation to report on at least two points of view relating to the issue of children and smartphone usage.
Strategies for teaching critical skills while navigating today's polarized climate.
Revised with assistance from INFOhio Users Council members, ISearch BINGO can be broken into 3 separate activities which are listed below. Review the activities, and then download and print the documents you need.
This infographic offers an overview of how confirmation bias and motivated reasoning impact our beliefs. It also outlines some key tips on how to best defend ourselves against cognitive biases.
A foundational guide to types of misinformation, "rumor cues" and more.
This infographic contains six tips to help students think clearly about news media bias, a nuanced and important topic.
Learning to categorize and sort objects and ideas is a key component to helping primary age students find and use materials in their library. When teaching students in grades 2-3 the Dewey Decimal System, consider this lesson which asks them to categorize recognizable objects into groups based on shared traits. Using concrete objects will help you bridge learning so that the more abstract concept of grouping books by similar topics is attainable for these learners. This lesson uses content from INFOhio's Educator Tools and ISearch.
An infographic with five steps for vetting news sources.
Differentiate between different levels of scientific evidence using this infographic. Discover eight distinct levels of scientific evidence arranged in a pyramid that reflects a spectrum of quality. This resource was developed in partnership with Dr. Katrine Wallace, an epidemiologist, educator and science literacy influencer.
A classroom-ready guide to accompany Season 3 Episode 1 of NLP's Is that a fact? podcast: “Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?” Our guest is Will Knight, senior writer about artificial intelligence at Wired magazine. We discuss how ChatGPT is being applied to search and what some of the potential and pitfalls are of this new class of technology known as “generative AI.”
A classroom-ready guide to accompany Season 3 Episode 3 of NLP's Is that a fact? podcast: “Flagrant foul: Misinformation and sports.” Guest host Jake Lloyd digs into how misinformation manifests in the sports world with author and journalist Jemele Hill, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and host of the Spotify podcast Jemele Hill is Unbothered. Hill discusses not only how sports falsehoods spread, but also how the nature of sports reporting makes it more resistant to manipulation than news coverage.
A classroom-ready guide to accompany Season 3 Episode 5 of NLP's Is that a fact? podcast: “Opinion creep: How facts lost ground in the battle for our attention.” We discuss how the blurring of fact-based news and opinion has left the public more confused than informed. Our guest is Tom Rosenstiel, professor at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism and co-author of The Elements of Journalism.
Resources gathered from INFOhio for the 2023-2024 school year to train and share within our school, MVCTC-Miami Valley Career Technology Center for juniors, seniors, and teachers.
Two-minute quiz to help students recognize examples of conspiratorial thinking.
Two-minute quiz focused on distinguishing the real meaning within data.
Three-minute quiz focused on how standards-based journalism works.
Two-minute quiz to test how well students can recognize "credibility" online.
Test your ability to distinguish between false and credible social media posts.
Short quiz on pop culture references, emphasizing the value of fact-checking.
This three-week unit plan for grades 3–6, produced by the News Literacy Project and TIME for Kids, builds foundational news literacy skills. It includes core lessons, rich discussion prompts, collaborative group activities and challenging independent work.