Catalog: Educating Kids
Pedagogy, projects/programs, an classroom materials to train ‘em up young.
This page is one part of the Prism Anti-Misinformation Resources Catalog. See the Table of Contents to navigate to other categories of resources.
Pedagogy
How to Teach Kids to Spot Fake News (Parents.com)
It's never been more imperative to teach children and teens the right way to consume news. Here's how they can learn to differentiate between what's real and what's fake.
How to Build Digital Literacy for Your K-8 Child (U.S. News and World Report)
Kids begin consuming digital media early, at home and in school. Here's how parents can foster good online practices.
Webinar: What is Media Literacy and How Do I Teach It? (Arizona Department of Education)
Free webinar that examines what media literacy means, teaches students to be responsible consumers and producers of media, and examines some methods and lessons that educators can use in the classroom.
Learn to Discern: Media Literacy Trainer's Manual (IREX)
A curriculum for educators in formal and informal education environments. It provides step-by-step guidance and interactive exercises for helping learners of all ages recognize why and how manipulative content works and gain skills to reject half-truths, clickbait, hate speech, and fakes.
How to teach news literacy in polarizing times (News Literacy Project)
Eight strategies that can help you teach the most important stories and issues of the day while navigating social and political differences to make classroom conversations worthwhile.
Discover How to Define and Teach Media Literacy (Knowledge Quest)
In this issue we have gathered a wealth of knowledge and resources for defining, teaching, and advocating for media literacy. This issue also examines how to integrate social media competencies into information literacy instruction.
Strategies for savvy news consumers (News Literacy Project)
In part one of a two-part series for the Education for Sustainable Democracy podcast, John Silva, NLP’s senior director of education and training, and Miriam Romais, NLP’s senior manager of educator engagement, discussed the importance of news literacy and strategies to help young people become smart news consumers.
Teach Media Literacy Skills (storymaker)
Help students learn how to access, analyze, evaluate, create and act using all forms of communication. From fact-checking to journalism standards to combating misinformation, empower your students to become savvy media experts. Includes explainer videos and lesson plans.
Literacy and Pedagogy in an Age of Misinformation and Disinformation (Edited by Tara Lockhart, Brenda Glascott, Chris Warnick, Juli Parrish, and Justin Lewis)
This collection of full-length essays and interviews explores networked literacies and their impact on information systems and literacy learning and action. Understanding the underlying structures of networked literacies is essential to help students, teachers, and society members nurture the deliberative, reflective practices and pedagogies needed in our current moment.
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India (Sumitra Badrinathan via American Political Science Review)
Treated respondents received hour-long in-person media literacy training in which enumerators discussed inoculation strategies, corrections, and the importance of verifying misinformation, all in a coherent learning module. Receiving this hour-long media literacy intervention did not significantly increase respondents’ ability to identify misinformation on average. However, treated respondents who support the ruling party became significantly less able to identify pro-attitudinal stories.
Avoiding the Rabbit Hole: Teaching Conspiratorial Thinking without Perpetuating It (Illinois Civics Hub)
Participants explored the psychological and cognitive factors behind conspiratorial thinking, including the role of fears and anxiety, cognitive dissonance and biases, motivated reasoning, and institutional cynicism. Participants also discussed the ways in which conspiracy theories exploit emotions as well as fill emotional needs and learned how to integrate news literacy concepts into the curriculum.
Preventing Youth Radicalization: Building Resilient, Inclusive Communities (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Resources intended to provide community- and victim-centered strategies to address the threat of extremism, through early prevention and non-carceral solutions. The primary resource, A Parents & Caregivers Guide to Online Youth Radicalization, lays a foundation for understanding the nature of extremism, dynamics of radicalization, and steps you can take to prevent them from taking root in your community. Supplemental material expands the Guide for educators, counselors, coaches, and others who work alongside youth.
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Projects/Programs
Newsroom to Classroom (News Literacy Project)
This NLP program brings journalists into middle schools and high schools — in person and virtually — to share their knowledge and expertise with students in their community, across the United States or around the world.
NewsLitCamp® (News Literacy Project)
A day-long professional development experience hosted in a local newsroom. NewsLitCamps bring educators and practicing journalists together to discuss news literacy and journalism. Designed primarily for middle and high school teachers, librarians and media specialists.
Checkology® (News Literacy Project)
A browser-based platform, designed for students in grades 6-12, helps prepare the next generation to easily identify misinformation.
NewsWise (The Guardian Foundation, National Literacy Trust, and PSHE Association funded by Google)
A cross-curricular news literacy project for nine- to 11-year-olds across the UK. Hosts news literacy webinars for educators’ CPD and other workshops and publishes a teacher guide, lesson plans, and other resources.
Student Reporting Labs (PBS News Hour)
A national youth journalism program and public media initiative that trains teenagers across the country to produce stories that highlight the achievements, challenges, and reality of today’s youth. SRL creates transformative educational experiences through video journalism that inspire students to find their voice and engage in their communities.
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Classroom Materials
News Literacy Resource Library (News Literacy Project)
Includes lesson plans, classroom activities, posters and infographics, quizzes, training materials and videos for educators teaching news literacy.
The Sift Newsletter (News Literacy Project)
Free weekly newsletter for educators — delivered during the school year — explores timely examples of misinformation, addresses media and press freedom topics and discusses social media trends and issues. It also includes links, discussion prompts and activities for use in the classroom.
Confront science misinformation in your classroom with NOVA (PBS)
NOVA is committed to providing educators with STEM resources that make learning as engaging as possible during an unprecedented time in which back-to-school is anything but back to normal. Whether students are curious about how vaccines work with the immune system or want a deeper understanding of how trust in science and medicine is built, we have put together a collection of resources to help students develop science media literacy skills!
KQED Education (KQED Public Media)
A free media literacy teaching and learning hub for educators and students. Professional development courses, classroom resources, and unique tools that allow students to practice critical thinking, media-making, and civil discourse.
Juice Learning (The Juice)
Students read today’s news in 10-20 minutes, interacting with informational text, practicing digital media literacy skills, and answering standards-based questions while sharpening their reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Teachers receive real-time diagnostic information about student performance with data that highlights standards mastery and accountability.
Teaching Cyber Citizenship (New America)
A paper laying out the key concepts and case for building greater resilience to online threats by equipping our teachers and students with the tools and skills they desperately need.
Cyber Citizen Initiative (New America)
Developed with Cyber Florida and other partners to support educators building students' resilience against misinformation and disinformation in the digital world.
Media Literacy Clearinghouse (Frank W. Baker)
Links to a range of media literacy resources, from concepts to teaching standards.
Documentary: Trust Me (American Association of School Librarians and Getting Better Foundation)
Focuses on the need for media literacy and uses compelling human stories, facts, and experts to show empirical realities and the right way to consume media.
CIVIX Digital Information Literacy (CIVIX)
For democracy to work, citizens need to be informed and engaged. The resources on this site are designed to help educators empower students under the voting age form the habits and skills of informed citizenship, identify faulty information, and learn to rely on credible sources.
Mucktracker (Mucktracker)
Mucktracker promotes critical media literacy through innovative technological solutions. Our dedicated news tool and curriculum resources help students analyze, evaluate, and compare news sources in a teacher-supported environment.
Teaching Resources (Media Education Lab)
Free multimedia curriculum materials to help learners of all ages advance knowledge, skills, and competencies in the media learning domain.
The Learning Network (New York Times)
Teach and learn with The New York Times: Resources for bringing the world into your classroom.
News-O-Matic (Lillian Holtzclaw Stern and Marc-Henri Magdelenat)
A digital learning solution for engaging nonfiction reading, complete with valuable literacy tools for the K-8 classroom.
Learning Found (Newsela)
Delivers compelling content for teachers that is relevant, responsive, inclusive, and designed to build lessons that feed curiosity. Meaningful classroom learning for every student.
Kid Scoop (Kid Scoop)
Educational activity pages that teach and entertain. Learning resources that are used by both families and schools. Teachers use this page in schools to promote standards-based learning. Parents use Kid Scoop materials to foster academic success, a joy of learning and family discussions.
TIME for Kids (TIME Magazine)
TIME for Kids nurtures today’s learners and tomorrow’s leaders with authentic news and the critical-thinking skills that shape active global citizens.
Be Internet Awesome (Google)
Helping kids be safe, confident explorers of the online world.
Resilience Series Graphic Novels (U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency)
Communicates the dangers and risks associated with dis- and misinformation through fictional stories that are inspired by real-world events. The series highlights the importance of evaluating information sources to help individuals understand the risks from foreign influence operations on our society and democracy.