Teaching Media Literacy in a Fake News World

Goals and Objectives of this Course:

• Use provided prompts specific to media literacy education, to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional educational practice.
• Explain, in writing, the foundations, purpose, and methods of media literacy education.
• Summarize, in writing, ideas for implementation of course concepts with students and/or colleagues.
• Describe, in writing, strategies for teaching about fake news.
• Develop lesson plans or a professional learning activity on the topic of media literacy.