Search trusted, authoritative sites: Addsite:.domainafter search terms (domains .edu, .gov or .org). Example:cyberbullying site:.org (NOTE: NO spaces between site: and the domain.)
Exact phrase search: Add quotation marks around a phrase Examples:"animal rights" "mental health" "school choice"
The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help faculty members teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.
The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Their core projects focus on fact-checking, but they also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
Headquartered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, FlackCheck.org is the political literacy companion site to the award-winning FactCheck.org. The site provides resources designed to help viewers recognize flaws in arguments in general and political ads in particular. Video resources point out deception and incivility in political rhetoric.
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. PolitiFact is run by editors and reporters from the Tampa Bay Times, an independent newspaper in Florida.
"1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports and humor. 1A’s goal is to act as a national mirror — taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be"
Crash Course partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group to develop a series of videos to help you evaluate the information you read online.
A podcast featuring thoughtful and lively conversations hosted by Diane Rehm on an array of topics with many of the most distinguished people of our times.
This collection assembles hundreds of the greatest documentary films and series from the history of the Public Broadcasting Service into one convenient online interface.
The PEN America Digital Archive captures more than 50 years of cultural programming at the intersection of literature and freedom of expression advocacy. The digital archive makes available long-inaccessible but valuable public and private programming featuring the world’s foremost writers, intellectuals, and artists in candid and often heated discourse about the most relevant cultural and political issues of our times.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). Covers almost all topics from science to business to global issues.
