Lesson plan

Project Look Sharp

Project Look Sharp (PLS) is a media literacy initiative based at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1996, it develops educational materials and professional development programs designed to support critical thinking and media analysis in classroom settings. The organization distributes free curriculum kits and offers training for educators. Its instructional model, Constructivist Media Decoding (CMD), encourages students to examine media by evaluating source, purpose, and credibility.

Back to article

Article summary

Project Look Sharp (PLS) is a media literacy initiative based at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1996, it develops educational materials and professional development programs designed to support critical thinking and media analysis in classroom settings. The organization distributes free curriculum kits and offers training for educators. Its instructional model, Constructivist Media Decoding (CMD), encourages students to examine media by evaluating source, purpose, and credibility.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 1996 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1996". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351182724

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.