Catalog: Training Courses

Aug 30, 2021

This page is one part of the Prism Anti-Misinformation Resources Catalog. See the Table of Contents to navigate to other categories of resources.

Learn teaching practices that help students become savvy consumers of digital information. Fake news and misinformation pose an urgent challenge to citizens across the globe. Multiple studies have shined a light on people’s difficulty in distinguishing truth from fiction, reliable information from sham.

The News Literacy Project offers both in-person and virtual professional development sessions that provide strategies and resources for teaching news literacy.

Every day, at a time of your choosing, you will receive a little nugget of learning by text message, with some extra video and article links if you want to dive deeper.

How to fact and source-check in five easy lessons, taking about 30 minutes apiece. The entire online curriculum is two and a half to three hours and is suitable homework for the first week of a college-level module on disinformation or online information literacy.

Four-part video series on skills to make sure the information you’re getting is the best possible information you can get.

This course will introduce you to foundational media literacy principles that will help you make sense of the digital media environment. You’ll learn how: to spot misinformation, to assess credible sources and claims, to explain how the professional news media operate, and to use media to participate in your community.

Learn simple digital literacy skills to outsmart algorithms, detect falsehoods, and make decisions based on factual information. Be able to: Spot the seven types of misinformation; verify images and videos on the internet; identify and consume online news responsibly; fact-check social media posts; report false information on each social media platform; operate as a good digital citizen and explain to others the pitfalls of sharing misinformation; and teach loved ones how to fact-check on their own.

Teaching teens to be critical media consumers and make decisions based on facts. Dozens of teens work with us virtually from across America to fact-check content online as members of the MediaWise Teen Fact-Checking Network (TFCN).

Understanding Bias (News Literacy Project Checkology)

A 30-part video overview of the topic of bias, and the five types of bias encountered when consuming media.

Automating OSINT (Automating OSINT)

Learn how to code and automatically extract and analyse data from webpages and social media.

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