Community Connections

Daily News Lesson September 22 2025

Community Connections: How the decline in local news helps fuel political division

Discuss AI and its use in the news, including in purposeful misinformation

Daily News Lesson October 06 2025

Community Connections: How online misinformation is ‘supercharging’ conspiracy theories

Learn how best to discuss misinformation and how to challenge conspiratorial thinking

Daily News Lesson November 20 2025

Community Connections: What to know about mental health misinformation on social media

Learn how best to discuss misinformation and how to challenge conspiratorial thinking

Daily News Lesson April 18 2025

Community Connections: Mother and child sit down to discuss vaccine conspiracy theories

Hear from one woman what it took to get her to stop believing conspiracy theories about vaccines

Daily News Lesson February 26 2025

Community Connections: Is political extremism partly caused by loneliness?

Discuss one theory about the rise of political extremism in the U.S.

Daily News Lesson January 23 2025

Community Connections: Social media’s role in fueling extremism and misinformation

Discuss changes in media platforms can affect the ways people process news

Daily News Lesson August 12 2025

Community Connections: West Philadelphia uses art to confront neighborhood problems

Learn how local arts organizations are taking action and plan out your own event

Daily News Lesson January 30 2026

Community Connections: George Washington's vision for American identity tested 250 years later

Discuss how has the first president's vision for the country been shaped by the centuries, and what he might think of the state of Democracy in the U.S. today

FILE PHOTO: Morning rises over the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington

Daily News Lesson July 28 2025

Community Connections: Student free speech and the Supreme Court

Discuss whether public schools should be able to punish students for speech outside of the school

Daily News Lesson May 15 2025

Community Connections: How social media nearly ruined a friendship

Hear from two teens whose friendship was put at risk by social media