The document discusses teaching news literacy to educators. It introduces Peter Adams from the News Literacy Project who talks about helping students develop critical thinking skills to evaluate news and information from all media platforms. The goals of news literacy education are to demonstrate journalistic standards as a measure of credibility, foster skepticism of news while challenging cynicism, help youth make informed choices, highlight the importance of public discourse to democracy, and provide young people with skills and confidence for civic participation.

1. Teaching News Literacy:
An Introduction for Educators
Peter Adams
SVP for Educational Programs
The News Literacy Project

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Follow: @TheNewsLP
@PeterD_Adams
#newslitchat

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9. What would you do?

10. What would you do?
What would your students do?

11. Manipulated to Seem Raw
The popcorn cell phone video was a hoax produced by
Cardo Systems, a maker of bluetooth headsets. Cardo has
since pulled the video from YouTube.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/bluetooth-compa/
http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.m/webscout/2008/06/cell-phone-popc.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/11/ad-watchdog-sla.html

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Luke Montgomery

21. Dayna Morales, Cannot Tip

22. FW: Michigan Food Stamps

23. Subject: You’ve Gotta Be
Kidding Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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32. News Literacy

33. News Literacy
Information → Decisions

34. News Literacy
Information → Decisions → Actions

35. 84% of respondents say they are bombarded with
information “and would benefit from learning more
about how to gauge what news is trustworthy.”
-Cathy J. Cohen, Joseph Kahne, 2012

36. News Literacy
The critical thinking skills to be able to
consume and create credible information
across all media and all platforms as
students, consumers and citizens.

37. News Literacy Seeks To

38. • Demonstrate the value of journalistic standards as a
“credibility yardstick”
News Literacy Seeks To

39. • Demonstrate the value of journalistic standards as a
“credibility yardstick”
• Foster skepticism and challenge cynicism
News Literacy Seeks To

40. • Demonstrate the value of journalistic standards as a
“credibility yardstick”
• Foster skepticism and challenge cynicism
• Help youth make informed choices
News Literacy Seeks To

41. • Demonstrate the value of journalistic standards as a
“credibility yardstick”
• Foster skepticism and challenge cynicism
• Help youth make informed choices
• Highlight the role that a robust national
conversation has in a healthy democracy
News Literacy Seeks To

42. • Demonstrate the value of journalistic standards as a
“credibility yardstick”
• Foster skepticism and challenge cynicism
• Help youth make informed choices
• Highlight the role that a robust national
conversation has in a healthy democracy
• Give young people the skills (and confidence) to be
civically engaged
News Literacy Seeks To