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Below are lesson plans and activities related to misinformation that you can use to teach information/media literacy concepts in your courses.
Stanford History Education Group: Intro to Lateral Reading
This lesson teaches students to evaluate information from unfamiliar sources by searching elsewhere for information about that source.
This mini-course can be adapted to teach information and media literacy skills to students in the context of different disciplines.
Open E-Book: Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
This book teaches Internet users to build habits of fact-checking with practical tips on how to effectively use Internet tools to evaluate information.
Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab: Inoculation Science
A project of the University of Cambridge and the University of Bristol, Inoculation Science features videos and games to teach Internet users to identify misinformation without falling for it.
This game from Clemson University Media Forensics Hub teaches users to distinguish between legitimate social media accounts and bot accounts.
This is a sample lesson plan on how to analyze fake news disseminated on social media.
This lesson demonstrates how cognitive biases impair our ability to evaluate information.
Common Sense Education: Digital Citizenship Curriculum
These news and media literacy lesson plans are for K-12 but can be adapted for older students and include lessons on how advertising contributes to the spread of misinformation, how filter bubbles affect the information we find, and more.
These K-12 lessons can also be adapted for older students and include a game about the role of algorithms in our digital lives, lessons on bias and crime in the media, identifying hoaxes, and more.
This is an extensive list of resources including professional development for educators, lesson plans, and more.