About This Lesson
Prism is a free media-literacy tool built around live news, made by one person and supported by readers.
It takes a real news event and separates two things classrooms usually meet tangled together: what happened, and how it was told. First a plain factual account, written to be acceptable whatever you think. Then the same facts framed from five points on the political spectrum. Then the evidence — each outlet's own headline and wording, quoted and linked back to the source, so any claim can be checked.
Prism publishes no original reporting and employs no journalists. It carries no advertising, sets no cookies, and asks students for no accounts or sign-ups.
The factual accounts and the five framings are written by an AI model from what outlets publish, and Prism says so plainly wherever they appear. The classroom materials treat every summary as a claim for students to check, never a source to cite.
