Are there gender, racial, political, or religious stereotypes that you see repeated in media? What are they?
How powerful is the media in shaping how we see the world and others?
How do we decide what to believe?
On the Media is a podcast from WNYC radio that investigates media's impact on how people see, understand, and interact with the world. The episode focusing on racial bias in crime reporting is embedded (transcript linked below embedded audio), followed by the RSS feed of recent episodes.
Evaluating Media Resources
Media Literacy Teaching Tools
Evaluate your information using the CRAAP test. Based on what you discover, go back, brainstorm, and do more research.