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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
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