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Media and News Literacy

Media is everywhere. We find it on our phones, computer screens, billboards, radios, social media feeds, newspapers, and magazines. Because of its pervasiveness and influence, it’s more important than ever that students can effectively navigate these many streams of information.

In this collection, we will offer resources that can help you and your students improve your media and news literacy. We’ll help you discern the credibility of media content, uncover misinformation and disinformation, identify fact from fiction, and explore the impact that artificial intelligence is having on the media literacy landscape. You will also find numerous links to highly rated and relevant online resources.

A Media Literacy Toolkit for Election Season

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

10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

The News Literacy Project

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.

Best Practices 8 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Strategies to Protect Yourself From Misinformation

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

Best Practices 13 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Identifying Disinformation Strategies

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

Best Practices 10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Understanding the Basics of Misinformation and Disinformation

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

Best Practices 10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Strategies for Identifying Deepfakes

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

Best Practices 10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Deepfakes: Understanding the Basics

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

Best Practices 10 min Resource by:

Avoid Misleading Messages

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.

Best Practices 20 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Pop the Filter Bubble

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

Best Practices 10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Acknowledge and Identify Bias

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

Best Practices 10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Teach Information and Media Literacy: The Foundation of Democracy

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.

Best Practices 10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

Create Credibility Detectives in Your Classroom

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.

Best Practices 10 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

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