🤣 Just like April Fools' Day jokes, fun rumors or fibs shared in text chats & with friends can be entertaining.
🤔 When spread on the internet, though? They can get stripped of context & circulated as real. The next thing you know, #misinformation spreads.
⚠️ Be careful out there!
#NewsLiteracy
Learn about NLP's 5 standards for news literacy from @pamelabrunskill.bsky.social on this NYU webinar ⤵️
🚨 Pam also touches on our recent teen survey, which underscores how critical the need for our work is.
➕ And she walks through examples of misinfo & how to spot them.
#NewsLiteracy
#EdTech
“What do you think is happening? What is this about?”
👆🏾 Questions Central Islip, NY, educator Alex Luciano asks about images to build #NewsLiteracy skills.
Luciano teaches adult ESL & 2nd grade bilingual classes. Learn more about how he builds critical thinking skills across subjects ⤵️
"Babe, they're AI." #Zendaya spoke out on @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social after people in her life were fooled by #AI images showing the actress & fellow actor Tom Holland in wedding attire.
The fakes look convincing, but #NewsLiteracy skills can help you avoid being duped ⤵️
New #newsliteracy study in Journalism Practice tracks how journalists describe and enact relationship building as a metacognitive news literacy behavior.
Free webinar invitation to teach news literacy, featuring logos of News Literacy Project, Minnesota Star Tribune, and ThreeSixty Journalism. March 18, 4 P.M. CT.
🤯 Minnesota #educators: Are you unsure of how to help students navigate today's overwhelming info landscape?
💡 Learn how to bring #NewsLiteracy to your classroom & how to use our e-learning platform Checkology® by joining us for a FREE webinar on March 18.
🔗 Register: go.newslit.org/March18MN
2/ “Whether students pursue journalism or any other career field, I know when they leave my classroom, they do so fully understanding their #FirstAmendment rights & responsibilities as citizens, who will go on to make well-informed decisions," said program advisor Morgan Bricker
#NewsLiteracy
New #newsliteracy publication in JMCQ uses interviews with teens to develop a five-part typology of news media trust based partly on the individual's ability to elaborate on the news media system.
Heads up #MediaLiteracy and #NewsLiteracy folks. If you only teach lateral reading, your students would miss this because their results would indicate NYT is a reliable source. Teach students to analyze legacy media outlets, too! 🍎 📚🗺️
👀 "Doubling down on #MediaLiteracy in school curriculums is no longer optional. It should be embedded across grade levels, integrated into English & social studies classes & reinforced through experiential learning like student newsrooms."
We agree! Read more 👇🏾
#NewsLiteracy
#EduSky
Two things matter most when evaluating a news source: who funds it and whether it's factually accurate.
Our democracy depends on an informed public. Everyone deserves a healthy media diet. I'm here to help you build one.
#MediaLiteracy #NewsLiteracy #Democracy #Journalism
We're very much working on it - with educators in all 50 states integrating #NewsLiteracy resources into the classroom, & partnerships with large school districts across the country! newslit.org
Good to learn about this project. Very important these days for students (of all ages) to learn more about #NewsLiteracy #Media #news #P4A2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzmg...
"I love to use the Daily Do Now slides with my students. I post the questions in my Google Classroom & display the slides on my Smartboard." - Ohio social studies #teacher Madeline Stewart
Get more #NewsLiteracy tips from Stewart ⤵️
➕Daily Do Now slides here: go.newslit.org/DailyDoNows
📢 Educators: It's not too late to get quick NLP tips on how to use The Sift newsletter for teaching #NewsLiteracy!
🔗 Join us at 5pm ET TODAY: go.newslit.org/SiftWebinar26
#EdTech
#EduSky
"Experts fear that Americans are losing their ability to distinguish between fact & fiction — & that fewer people seem to care about the difference."
👇🏾 As laid out, the mis- & disinfo machine - boosted by AI - has never been more potent. #NewsLiteracy as a solution has never been more urgent.
📣Closing out #NewsLiteracy Week, we want to note that disinformation, including AI-generated content, affects #AAPI communities who get their news in many different languages & across many social media platforms. YOU have the power to stop misinformation by looking at the FACTS!
Speaking of the @startribune.com, yesterday the newspaper launched an initiative to bring news literacy education to classrooms across Minnesota.
We're excited to be the Star Tribune's exclusive news literacy partner for the effort. Read more 👇🏾
#NewsLiteracyWeek
#NewsLiteracy
2/ As the exclusive #NewsLiteracy partner of the paper, we're excited to play a role in its efforts to:
- Expand journalism access to schools, teachers & students
- Invest in news literacy by providing free resources + trainings
- Mentor future journalists through the ThreeSixty Journalism program
1/ Educators: Do you have a FREE #Checkology account?
Our virtual classroom covers every aspect of #NewsLiteracy. Lesson topics include:
- InfoZones
- The First Amendment
- Misinformation
- Conspiratorial thinking
- Algorithms
+ so much more!
✨ Start exploring: go.newslit.org/TeachWithChe...
Happy #NewsLiteracyWeek!
Teachers: Check out our #JournalismInAction "Create Your Own Story" activity 💫 📰
Students develop their critical thinking and communication skills by creating an news op-ed or magazine cover. #sschat #apush #EduSky #newsliteracy
LESSON LINK: http://bit.ly/3H94VgE
#NewsLiteracy tips to spot these kinds of claims & the false evidence that often comes with them:
✨ Be highly skeptical of posts from ordinary accounts
✨ Check for signs of AI-generation
✨ Beware of AI “enhancements,” “interpretations” or “reenactments”
✨ Measure claims against verified evidence
Text-heavy infographic about confirmation bias and motivated reasoning, with boxes explaining different aspects of the cognitive biases. Boxes include: Confirmation bias is; motivated reasoning is; information habits, political polarization & conspiracy theories; Interesting studies; & “our best defenses.”
⚠️ In today's AI age, confirmation bias & motivated reasoning are dangerous cognitive biases. For instance:
👍🏽 See a video that you agree with? That must be legit.
🤔 See a video that you disagree with? That has to be AI!
🔗 Download the infographic: go.newslit.org/ConfBiasPoster
#NewsLiteracy
New #newsliteracy curriculum study in Cogent Education: "News literacy education and civic engagement among primary school children: a mixed-methods evaluation."
Big congrats to the @newslit.org on getting verified! They do great work and #newsliteracy is so important so I'm happy to see it!
#medialiteracy
1/ Even in today's AI age, basic #NewsLiteracy skills are sometimes enough to get the facts of a story:
1 - Critical observation: What am I looking at?
2 - Sourcing: Who posted this? Do they have an agenda?
3 - Verification: Has this video or photo been verified as legit by other credible sources?
📰Media Literacy Coalition January 2026 Newsletter: check it out and share! drive.google.com/file/d/1QSs1... @medialiteracynow.bsky.social @newslit.org @hcp-ucsc.bsky.social @ucbhssp.bsky.social @sccoe.bsky.social @montereycountynow.com @cip.uw.edu #MediaLiteracy #MisinfoDay #NewsLiteracy #EduSkyAI
New #newsliteracy book from Cathy Collins: "Teaching News Literacy in the Age of AI."
drcathycollins.com/the-book/
A quote next to a photo of the Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Washington, D.C. "Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
Continuation of MLK Jr. quote: "The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Martin Luther King Jr. The Purpose of Education
✨ Martin Luther King Jr. couldn't have said it better: Regardless of the subject area, being able to think critically & separate fact from fiction are paramount to education.
👉🏾 Read the speech MLK Jr. gave at Morehouse College in 1948: go.newslit.org/MLKEducation
#MLKDay #NewsLiteracy
