Teaching Controversial Topics

Articles

Literacy & NCTE: Official Blog of the National Council of Teachers of English:

• • "Resources for teaching in these times," http://blogs.ncte.org/index.php/resources-teaching-times/

Discussing Controversial Public Issues in the Classroom: http://teachinghistory.org/issues-and-research/research-brief/25748
Diana Hess, "Teach students to discuss controversial issues": http://news.education.wisc.edu/news-publications/learning-connections/archive/2009-fall/diana-hess

Curricular Materials

Facing History and Ourselves: https://www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources#top
PBS Learning Media:

• • Civil Rights: Then and Now: https://ket.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/civilrightsthenandnow/#.WaAKqtMrI1g
  • America After Charleston: https://ket.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/aac15-soc-blm/america-after-charleston-black-lives-matter/#.WaAK1dMrI1g
  • Klansville USA: https://ket.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex27-soc-klanrevival/wgbh-american-experience-klansville-usa-first-blockbuster-film-revives-ku-klux-klan/#.WaALAdMrI1g
  • Freedom Riders: https://ket.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/frriders/#.WaALIdMrI1g

Literacy & NCTE: Official Blog of the National Council of Teachers of English:

• • "Resources for teaching in these times," http://blogs.ncte.org/index.php/resources-teaching-times/

Southern Poverty Law Center Resources: https://www.splcenter.org/resources
Teaching Tolerance: https://www.tolerance.org/

• • Resources that emphasize social justice and anti-bias
  • Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy: https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/whoseheritage_splc.pdf

Facing History and Ourselves: https://www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources#top
Lynching in America: https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/
Pro/Con: https://www.procon.org/

• • Pros and cons of controversial issues

 

Media Literacy

Organizations

Project Look Sharp: https://www.projectlooksharp.org/

• Media literacy initiative of Ithaca College

News Literacy Project: http://thenewsliteracyproject.org/resources
Reporters Without Borders: https://rsf.org/en/
NewseumED: https://newseumed.org/
The Lamp (media literacy program): https://thelamp.org/

• 22x20 civic education campaign: https://thelamp.org/22x20/

Articles / Resources

Northeastern University's Lazer Lab, "Exploring the Ideological Nature of Journalists' Social Networks on Twitter and Associations with News Story Content": http://lazerlab.net/publication/exploring-ideological-nature-journalists-social-networks-twitter-and-associations-news

• "The Lazer Lab conducts computational, empirical and experimental research on social influence, social networks and network science."

NPR, "To Test Your Fake News Judgment, Play This Game": http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/07/03/533676536/test-your-fake-news-judgement-play-this-game?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social