Media Literacy
Subject: ELA · Grade level: 8th
Evaluate sources, recognize bias, and verify claims in a world of information overload.
In this lesson
- Five core questions
- Recognizing bias
- How to verify a claim
- Algorithms and your feed
Key terms
- Algorithm
- Rules a platform uses to decide what you see next.
- Filter bubble
- When personalization mostly shows you views you already agree with.
- Confirmation bias
- Our tendency to believe info that fits what we already think.
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