The News Literacy Project
@NewsLitProject
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We advance the development and teaching of news literacy in K-12 education. #NewsLiteracy
Washington, DC
Joined August 2011
📢 National #NewsLiteracyWeek in partnership with @EWScrippsCo & @USATODAY begins TODAY! ✨ Whether you're an educator or not, you can make a difference in young people's lives by empowering them to identify credible info. 🔗 Get involved & share:
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🚨 Today's our last #Checkology 30-minute webinar. Learn how to use our award-winning e-learning platform that has 20 interactive lessons for students in grades 5-12 + much more! Join us at 7:30pm ET:
📢 Educators: This is the week for learning how to use our #Checkology digital learning platform! We're offering 4️⃣ FREE 30-minute sessions. Register for the one that works for you: Feb. 11, 3:30pm ET Feb. 12, 5:30pm ET & 8:30pm ET Feb. 13, 7:30pm ET
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❌ NO: This is not a genuine video of an actual sinkhole in Paris. ✔️ It's AI-generated. 💡 With how realistic AI has become, remember to review the source + check for corroborating news reports before sharing. 🔗 Read more: #NewsLiteracy
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💘 Valentine's Day is a day away, but we couldn't wait to express how we feel about our news-literate family! #ValentinesDay
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Can you name the 5 protections under the #FirstAmendment? 💡 Take our short quiz, which also asks questions about when the freedoms do or don't apply:
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RT @NvstateED: Join NDE & @NewsLitProject to explore Checkology®, a virtual classroom helping students critically analyze info & stay civic…
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📢 Educators: Join @KQEDedspace for a FREE workshop Feb. 11! 💡 Learn how to help your students gain vital online research & reasoning skills in the age of AI. 🔗 Sign up: #EdTech
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Here are a few tips to spot impostor content: - Beware of supposed screenshots: Does it link to a source? - Look for the original post: In this case, it would have been on Truth Social. - Carefully examine the source: Is it a parody or partisan account?
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📢 Educators: This is the week for learning how to use our #Checkology digital learning platform! We're offering 4️⃣ FREE 30-minute sessions. Register for the one that works for you: Feb. 11, 3:30pm ET Feb. 12, 5:30pm ET & 8:30pm ET Feb. 13, 7:30pm ET
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🐦⬛ Can you tell real bird photos from AI fakes? Take our 6-question quiz & challenge a friend! Get started:
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RT @12News: The Arizona Informant, a phoenix based newspaper, has documented Black history every week for more than 50 years, serving as a…
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How well does Gen Z understand what a sports journalist does? That's one of the topics of this week's edition of The Sift, which comes with: - discussion questions for the classroom - ideas for further learning ➕ slidedeck walkthroughs & resources Read:
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RT @elemenous: Check out this RumorGuard post from the @NewsLitProject and push back against misinformation!
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Miss out on National #NewsLiteracyWeek? There are plenty of ways to still engage. Check out: - Our @Flipboard collection with @EWScrippsCo & @USATODAY stories + more: - Takeaways from our discussion with Jeanne Marie Laskas:
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❌ NO: There is no evidence that the #SuperBowl is rigged. But in our 2024 survey of 1,100 teens, nearly half of them thought it was. 🏈 How does a mix of confirmation bias & motivated reasoning + sports fandom lead to such conclusions? Game day read:
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RT @usatodayopinion: Opinion: Bias is all over your social feed. We need media literacy to help us navigate it. | Opinion
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RT @kristinethall: Another great resource from @NewsLitProject with tips for having civic, fact-based conversations in today's polluted inf…
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