NLP Educator Booklet - Flipbook - Page 12
Checkology lessons
Explore the lessons at get.checkology.org/explore.
“Arguments & Evidence”
Students experience the information
aftermath of a 昀椀ctional event
as it unfolds on social media,
learn about 昀椀ve common logical
fallacies, then evaluate the
evidence in several arguments.
“Conspiratorial Thinking”
(two-part lesson)
Students learn to recognize conspiracy
theories and explain what makes people
vulnerable to conspiratorial thinking.
Host: Renée DiResta, formerly research
manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory
Host: Kimberley Strassel, The Wall
Street Journal
“Evaluating Science-Based Claims”
“Be Health Informed”
Students discover how to make
sense of the health and wellness
information vying for their attention
— and how to avoid being misled.
Host: Dr. Melissa Clarke, the Be Health
Empowered Group
Students learn how to recognize
science-based claims and evaluate their
credibility using the FLOATER method;
they also explore science journalism
and consider why people deny science.
Host: Melanie Trecek-King, Massasoit
Community College
“Be the Editor”
“For Elementary: Search and
Suggest Algorithms”
This interactive lesson tests
students’ news judgment skills
by challenging them to select the
most newsworthy stories to feature
on the homepage of their news
site, then explain their choices.
Students interact with a mock social
media site and search engine to
understand the information that
algorithms gather about them to
personalize what they see online.
Self-guided interactive lesson
Host: Nicco Mele of the Draper Richards
Kaplan Foundation and the Harvard
Kennedy School
“Branded Content”
Students understand the relationship
among advertisers, the news
media and the public, and they
debate the ethical implications
of new forms of marketing.
Host: Emily Withrow, The New York Times
“Citizen Watchdogs”
Students discover the ways that
they and others can document
and expose wrongdoing, including
monitoring news coverage for
breaches of journalism standards, by
examining a series of case studies.
Host: Tamerra Grif昀椀n, formerly of Rest of
World and BuzzFeed News
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Teaching news literacy
“Harm & Distrust”
This lesson explores the historical
failure of mainstream news
organizations to serve all people
equally, the legacies of distrust this
has caused among speci昀椀c groups
in America — particularly Black
Americans — and recent efforts by news
outlets to improve their coverage.
Host: Natalie Y. Moore, author and journalist,
formerly WBEZ/NPR, Chicago
