Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts Teach-Out

Next, use the “Evaluate Your Media Diet” worksheet below to track and record the news that you see over the course of the week.

This checklist will help you track some basic information like when you saw the information, what the source was, and how you came across it (Facebook, Twitter, Cable TV, Network TV, etc.) This checklist also helps you make note of your perception of the reputation of the source of the information, what kind of information it is (news, partisan information, satire, etc.), whether it confirms or challenges your beliefs, and your overall assessment of the quality of the information.

• The worksheet is available as a digital worksheet here (Excel Workbook)*.
• The worksheet is available as a printable PDF here.

*Please note: if you do not have access to Microsoft Excel, you can install Open Office for free (instructions here), or upload the Excel file as a Google Spreadsheet (instructions here).