Digital Citizenship & Media Literacy

Review resources that K–12 educators can use to teach media and news literacy.

Learn about the dangers of “cheap fakes,” which involve the manipulation of media to make something look real when it really isn’t, but unlike deepfakes, they take very little skill to create and can be made with simple and accessible tools.

Discover free resources from the News Literacy Project that can help you and your students become media literate consumers of information in the digital age.

Review six action steps that can be taken to help identify misinformation and avoid being misled.

Review seven general persuasion strategies used in disinformation campaigns and five strategies that are more specific to social media platforms.

Explore the motivations and psychology that contribute to the sharing of misinformation and disinformation in online spaces.

Review seven strategies that you and your students can use to identify deepfakes.

Review the basics of deepfakes, including the four most common types of media manipulation.

To sift through the vast quantities of misleading information presented to us each day, we need to develop the skills that will inform us how to avoid being misled.

To create well-informed citizens, we need to recognize filter bubbles and the impact they have on our information universe.

To be effective consumers of digital information, students need to be able to acknowledge and identify bias in all forms of media.

For our students to be informed and productive participants in the American democracy, they need to be able to effectively evaluate the credibility of online resources.

Explore the ABCs of evaluating online resources as a way to turn your students into credibility detectives who can effectively evaluate the trustworthiness of online resources.

Enhance classroom netiquette and learn how to diminish cyberbullying among your students.

Learn about the difference between passive and active screen time and how to integrate more active screen time.