Teaching Civics Reliability of Sources

Reliability of Sources

Posted By llad On August 2, 2017 @ 9:22 pm In | Comments Disabled

From The Learning Network’s “50 Ways to Teach With Current Events” by Michael Gonchar

This site ^[1] has 50 ideas to help teachers bring current events into the classroom.

Idea #42: “How do we distinguish good journalism from propaganda or just shoddy reporting?” A handy graphic organizer helps students apply the acronym IMVAIN to an article to determine whether the sources are: Independent, Multiple, Verifiable, Authoritative, Informed and Named.

tags: fake news, media literacy

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URL to article: https://teachingcivics.org/lesson/reliability-of-sources/

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[1] site: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/50-ways-to-teach-current-events/?_r=0#design

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