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Crash Course
Media & Money: Crash Course Media Literacy
Media isn’t just movies and newspapers and TV shows, it’s also a part of society that involves a lot of money. And all that money has implications for the media that gets created. Media is created by people -- a range of people, making a...
Crash Course
History of Media Literacy, Part 1: Crash Course Media Literacy
In order to understand the history of media literacy we have to go all the way back to straight up literacy. In the first half of our look at the history of media literacy, Jay takes us all the way back to Ancient Greece and forward...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How false news can spread - Noah Tavlin
In previous decades, most news with global reach came from several major newspapers and networks with the resources to gather information directly. The speed with which information spreads now, however, has created the ideal conditions...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to choose your news - Damon Brown
With the advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets. How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside scoop on how the...
Big Think
To Expose the Truth of Mental Hospitals, Nellie Bly Feigned Insanity to Study One
Nellie Bly's achievements are truly outsized: she spoke out for women's rights, feigned insanity to expose the truth of mental health treatment, and travelled around the world in less than 80 days. Big Think is proud to partner with the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Julian Vasquez Heilig - Teachers Make a Difference - Tom Heslop
Julian Vasquez Heilig leads nearly 3,000 students, staff and faculty as the Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education. He is also a tenured professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. While at UK, the College of...
Crash Course
Media and Money: Crash Course Media Literacy #5
Money talks ... especially in the media world! How do finances influence the media we see? Answer that, and many other questions using a video in a media literacy series. The narrator discusses how economic reasons influence media...
Crash Course
History of Media Literacy Part 1: Crash Course Media Literacy #2
Even Plato understood the importance of media! Part of an ongoing series of media literacy videos, the resource takes viewers to where it all began ... ancient Greece. The video covers the emergence of media and the written word, the...
Crash Course
Introduction to Media Literacy: Crash Course Media Literacy #1
How well does your class understand the types of media they use every day? Introduce them to the concept of media literacy with the first video in a Crash Course series on media literacy. Viewers discover the definition and types of...
Lesson Planet
EdTech Tuesday: NewsBug
Here is a great sneak peek into the NewsBug app, which curates news stories and images appropriate for classroom use and is free from social media connections and in-app purchases.
TED-Ed
How To Spot A Misleading Graph
A source that includes a graph may not always be the best reliable. A short resource highlights how graphs and charts can be misleading. Learners view actual graphs and note the way the graph is distorted to make a point.
Crash Course
Crash Course Media Literacy #2: History of Media Literacy, Part 1
In order to understand the history of media literacy, we have to go all the way back to straight up literacy. In the first half of our look at the history of media literacy, Jay takes us all the way back to Ancient Greece and forward...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Media Institution
So today we're going to look at the rather thorny issue of the media and its role in politics. Whether you're talking about older forms of media like newspapers and radio or newer forms like television and the Internet, all media serves...
Crash Course
Crash Course Media Literacy #5: Media and Money
Media isn't just movies and newspapers and TV shows, it's also a part of society that involves a lot of money. And all that money has implications for the media that gets created. Media is created by people -- a range of people, making a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Build a Wall
In the video "Keep Out Cows," Curious George tries to build a wall to keep the cows from munching on a flowerbed. He uses newspapers attached to a clothesline, but will they be strong enough to keep Leslie Cow and her friends away?...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Making Recycled Paper
In this adapted ZOOM video segment, cast members get hands-on in the recycling process by using old newspapers to make new paper.