Top Resources for National News Literacy Week

This lesson plan helps students distinguish between misinformation and disinformation by creating connections between their own lives and how misinformation spreads. Students will evaluate information and analyze how messages are supported and have the option to create a public service announcement and fact-check information using nonpartisan organizations.

 

This comprehensive guide for girls is intended to provide a balance of learning and project-based content to empower girls with digital literacy tools required to identify disinformation and understand its impacts on elections and vulnerable segments of society. It includes videos, individual or group activities, and reflection. It also includes a certificate of completion.

 

Students examine a case study about how corporate donations to political campaigns influence elections. Using film clips, students will increase their media analysis skills, knowledge of campaign finance, and why an informed citizenry equipped with critical thinking skills is necessary for a healthy democracy.

 

With this activity, students roleplay as members of the National Security Council and consider policy solutions for combating disinformation on social media as well as create a public awareness and news literacy campaign to educate voters.

 

This webinar explores the events of the Holocaust through the lens of media by examining propaganda deployed by the Nazis to discriminate against Jews and other minorities. Educators will gain the tools to facilitate classroom discussions on the role and impact of Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust and support their students in critically analyzing media in today’s world.

 

Use this resource in your classroom to teach about accountability in journalism using an episode of “The Weekly” from the New York Times. Students learn about the reporting process for investigative journalism and discuss to whom journalists should be accountable.

 

This detailed lesson guide uses a documentary film to analyze how some news brands’ ideas of what is "fair and balanced” distort the truth in service to blatantly biased agendas that contribute to the polarization of American society.

 

What is the difference between disinformation and misinformation? This blog aims to help you and your students know the dangers of spreading false information.

 

This lesson focuses on the spread of misinformation and disinformation in society. By looking at psychological factors, the current media environment and people’s news literacy skills, students will explore why false information is believed and spreads. Students will be able to explain why this misinformation spreads and develop ways to address it.

 

Help students discover how filmmakers communicate a point of view with this bilingual study guide presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Students examine the role that various media play in their lives, explore the techniques that filmmakers use to shape our viewing experience, weigh the impact of bias and stereotyping on our reactions to a film, and team up to plan a film of their own.

 

This webinar on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma discusses the ways in which technology companies use our psychology against us, and how this race for human attention impacts everything from individual mental health to the spread of misinformation. Learn how young people who use and build technology differently are ushering in a new era of humane technology and being mindful of the ethics of consumer tech.