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Daily News Lesson December 27 2024

Lesson plan: What news stories mattered most to your students this past year?

Create an end-of-year online magazine of the top 10 news stories from this past year

"I voted" stickers are displayed at a voting station during a special congressional election called after former Rep. Ryan Zinke was appointed to lead the Interior Department in Missoula

Lesson Plan November 01 2024

Podcast lesson plan: How is AI misinformation being used in the election?

Explore AI deepfakes, how to spot them and how they can be used to manipulate political perceptions using a podcast from Student Reporting Labs

how2Internet: Use media literacy skills to navigate a misinformation journey

Lesson Plan April 08 2024

How2Internet: Use media literacy skills to navigate the misinformation highway

Learn to produce a fact-check video using media literacy skills

Lesson Plan March 26 2024

How2Internet: How to avoid online scams

Learn to produce a fact-check video using media literacy skills

Daily News Lesson January 08 2024

How citizen investigators are helping the FBI track down Jan. 6 rioters

Based on Judy's Woodruff's America at a Crossroads series

Daily News Lesson March 16 2023

Top Lesson: U.S. gov pressures TikTok sale + News wrap 3/17/23 + Student video

Learn why the Biden administration is pushing the owners of TikTok to sell the popular social media site

Educator Voices July 17 2022

Educator voice: How digital citizenship helps keep youth safe and productive online

Diana Graber discusses her book 'Raising Humans in a Digital World: Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship With Technology'

Daily Video May 28 2020

Social media's role in monitoring misinformation

In this NewsHour EXTRA lesson, learn about Twitter's new initiative to fact check the tweets of influential figures such as President Trump and how it has stirred debate over the role of social media platforms as content moderators.

Lesson Plan May 30 2019

Lesson plan: How teens deal with the spread of misinformation

Find out what young people really think about the news and the spread of misinformation using a variety of short videos produced by PBS NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs.

Lesson Plan October 27 2017

Lesson plan: Bot or not? How fake social media accounts could influence voting

Learn about fake social media accounts called ‘bots’ that have been used to try to influence public opinion—and not always for the better

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