Facing History and Ourselves and The News Literacy Project have teamed up to produce two, one-hour interactive online summits about key topics in news literacy for teachers and their students. The summits will allow students from across the United States to virtually engage with an experienced journalist, and one another, around important themes of news literacy and digital citizenship. The first student summit will feature the media editor for BuzzFeed News, who will explore the opportunities and challenges around information gathering and sharing in a fast-paced information climate. It will be a virtual, interactive conversation between the media editor and students. The second student summit will offer visual literacy strategies to help students make sense of what they’re seeing in different types of media. Summit 1, “Viral Rumors and Fact Checking,” will take place on March 22, 2017, at 4 p.m. (ET). Summit 2, “Power and Pitfall of Images: How to Look at Images Online,” will take place at 6 p.m. (ET) on April 4, 2017, with journalists to be decided. Both virtual events are free.
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Navigating Fake News in the Classroom
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Thursday, March 30 at 5:15 p.m. EST
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In this 30-Minute Webinar
The way we interpret and synthesize news plays an important role in the way way we view the world. Working with students to critically evaluate the accuracy, meaning, and power of informational text has never been more important. In K-12, media literacy is an anchor standard of the CCSS and a component of most state standards. Yet, the execution and implementation of a media literacy curriculum has proven challenging. A recently published study from the Stanford History Education Group reveals that 82% of middle students could not distinguish between sponsored content and a real news story on a website.
We’ll share some approaches to teaching media literacy, and provide resources and strategies teachers can use to discuss fake news with your students and the challenges that can also arise.
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