Articles that teach students to mine popular sources for scholarly ones

Reading on Screens v. Paper: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/ (This article is great for discussing your particular expectations for how your students do their readings/bring their readings to class. It also synthesizes many peer-reviewed studies that can be found in the library databases, to illustrate how to utilize popular sources to find scholarly ones.)

Podcast that teaches multiple sides to an issue

This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/503/i-was-just-trying-to-help?act=1 (I have used this particular episode to illustrate the idea of legitimate debate in academic conversation, in which reasonable experts disagree on the topic of how best to help the poor. However, MANY episodes of This American Life can work for this if you check out their archives.)