CRE101 - College Critical Reading - Fake News

CONNECT:

• 1. Make connections between selfish critical thinkers and weak-sense critical thinking.

  2. Make connections between fair-minded critical thinkers and strong-sense critical thinking.

  3. Make connections between what social justice topics are important to you based on your values, interests, and/or career.
      

There are four interrelated principles of social justice; equity, access, participation and rights:

• Access (greater equality of access to goods and services)

• Equity (overcoming unfairness caused by unequal access to economic resources and power)

• Rights (equal effective legal, industrial and political rights)

• Participation (expanded opportunities for real participation in the decisions which govern their lives).

*Consider your values, interests, and/or future career".

• Ageism

• Police reform

• Hunger/food insecurity

• COVID-19 and our communities

• Gerrymandering

• Voting rights

• Dreamers/DACA

• Gun violence

• Adult Sentencing for Juveniles 

• Family separation

• Pay gap/Unequal pay

• Student Debt Crisis

• Conversion camps

• Hate crimes (religion, color, etc.)

• Portrayal in media & popular culture

• Fat shaming (i.e.- in the job market)

• Bullying and Harassment

• Identity theft

• Censorship 

• Capital punishment

Step 1:

Select your topic from the list or come up with your own. Be sure to choose something that aligns with your values, interests, and/or current/future career.  You might have to consider how you want to narrow your topic to suit your needs. Try to have your topic be unique from your classmates, so we can all learn from each other. 

Step 2:

Ask yourself questions to help guide your research:

• What are some of the major events in the past?

• When and where did they occur?

• Why did certain events happen?

• Who was involved? What role did they play?
   

Once you have answered these questions, it’s time to ask a few more:

What ––So What ––Now What?

• What are the some of the primary issues, problems, needs, and concerns?

• What fake news narrative (Links to an external site.) is persuading people against my stance on this social justice topic?

• What difference does it make?

• What can I do about it?
   

And finally,

• Who is my intended audience?

• Whom am I able to impact?

• What is my BIG idea? What could I title it to reflect my topic, ideas, and intended audience?

• How can I proceed?

• What do I need to consider?

Step 3:

Once you have a direction, reach out to Ask a Librarian to help you get 5-7 sources.

Step 4:

Create an annotated bibliography with sources you find useful to creating a webpage with Adobe Spark to educate others about your social justice topic.

Step 5:

Create a web page using Adobe Spark to inform (or inform and persuade) others about the social justice topic. Include information about yourself (including that you are a college student), your sources, and organizations one can turn to if they need help with a social injustice related to. your topic.