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Lesson Plan July 13 2023

Lesson plan: Find useful news about the issues you care about most

Learn how to find useful news sources about the issues you find most important

Post June 12 2023

Media literacy lesson collection featuring teen video reporters

Use this collection of media literacy lessons developed by Student Reporting Labs and MediaWise to help sort through information online

People come and go from the Registrar of Voters office on the final day of voter registration in the upcoming congressional elections in San Diego, California

Daily News Lesson June 07 2023

Voter registration tool targeted by conspiracy theorists + Newswrap 6/7/23 + Student Video

Learn about a conspiracy theory that has led to states abandoning a tool used to verify voter registration

Lesson Plan May 24 2023

Lesson plan: How to short-circuit misinformation before it spreads online

Learn how to identify misinformation shared on social media

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Lesson Plan May 01 2023

Be MediaWise lesson 6: How social media algorithms create echo chambers

Learn how algorithms work and how they can create echo chambers

Lesson Plan April 26 2023

Be MediaWise lesson 2: How to use lateral reading to debunk conspiracy theories online

Learn how to debunk a conspiracy theory using lateral reading and the Stanford History Education Group’s “Three Questions"

Educator Voices March 24 2023

Educator Voice: Media literacy with Mark Kurlansky

Hear from author Mark Kurlansky on teaching the truth during the "misinformation age"

Lesson Plan March 22 2023

Media literacy lesson: Three types of manipulated video used to spread misinformation

Learn three ways video is manipulated to spread misinformation and how to fact-check videos before sharing

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Lesson Plan March 14 2023

Media literacy lesson: The deceitful practice of quoting someone out of context

Learn how quotes have been manipulated to spread conspiracies about the 9/11 attacks and read upstream to find the original sources to explain how “contextomy” changed the meaning of quotes about a historical event.

Lesson Plan March 08 2023

Media literacy lesson: How to throw cold water on internet conspiracy theories

Find out why the frozen continent of Antarctica is a hot topic for conspiracy theories

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