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.
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.
Strategies to Protect Yourself From Misinformation
Review six action steps that can be taken to help identify misinformation and avoid being misled.
Identifying Disinformation Strategies
Review seven general persuasion strategies used in disinformation campaigns and five strategies that are more specific to social media platforms.
Understanding the Basics of Misinformation and Disinformation
Explore the motivations and psychology that contribute to the sharing of misinformation and disinformation in online spaces.
Strategies for Identifying Deepfakes
Review seven strategies that you and your students can use to identify deepfakes.
Deepfakes: Understanding the Basics
Review the basics of deepfakes, including the four most common types of media manipulation.
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.
Pop the Filter Bubble
To create well-informed citizens, we need to recognize filter bubbles and the impact they have on our information universe.
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.
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.
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.
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