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Lesson Plan November 13 2022

Media literacy lesson: Gun laws and book bans — how to find the missing context

Learn why context is as important as any other tool in determining what is true or not online
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Lesson Plan November 07 2022

Lesson plan: How to spot manipulated media, from 'cheap fakes' to misleading photos

Discuss best ways to identify manipulated media such as image and video content altered for political ads
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Daily News Lesson November 04 2022

Learn how to volunteer at your local election center

Learn how you can take part in the democratic process as a poll worker
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Lesson Plan October 27 2022

Be MediaWise lesson 4: Effective keyword searches

Learn how social media designed to scare can lead some to share misinformation
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Lesson Plan October 24 2022

Be MediaWise lesson 10: Recognizing satire before sharing it as misinformation

Equip your students with the tools to distinguish satirical news sources from legitimate news sources
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Lesson Plan October 17 2022

Be MediaWise lesson 9: Identifying news sites that aren't actually legit

Learn how some media sources have been built to deceive, and how to spot them
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Daily News Lesson October 05 2022

Mother and child sit down for candid conversation about vaccine hesitancy
Hear a conversation between a mother and her child about what helped her move passed conspiracy theories about vaccines
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Lesson Plan October 05 2022

Media literacy lesson: How to understand statistics and data in the news

Make sense of statistics presented on social media
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Daily News Lesson September 28 2022

Student Reporting Labs: How a young mother came to reject conspiracy theories
Hear from one woman what it took to get her to stop believing conspiracy theories
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Lesson Plan September 21 2022

Media literacy lesson: How to fact-check partisan social media posts

Sort through the noise surrounding the most consequential legislation passed by Congress this year
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