These monthly briefs are a good source for teachers who want to discuss disinformation in the classroom. They provide an overview of the disinformation narratives with highest circulations in the month previous to publication. Please click on the link below to access the content:
Developed by MediaSmarts, this website offers a lot of resources such as workshops, lessons plans, fact-checking tips, posters and infographics to help both children and adults to fight online disinformation. Please click on the link below to access the content: https://mediasmarts.ca/break-fake
This website from the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. provides games, videos and research explaining inoculation theory and how it helps build resistance against manipulation.
Skillify is a self-assessment tool developed by The Digital Collective (DigiCo) to help people understand their level of digital skills in 21 different topics. It covers the following areas: Information and Data Literacy; Communication and Collaboration; Digital Content Creation; Safety; and Problem Solving. It provides a detailed report on people’s digital skills and some recommendations to
In this Crash Course organised as a video series with 10 episodes, John Green in partnership with MediaWise, the Poynter Institute, and the Stanford History Education Group explores best practices in navigating the internet by helping people evaluate the information they read online. Please click on the link below to access the content:
This six-week course developed by by the University of Hong Kong and Stony Brook University aims to help learners develop their critical thinking skills to enable them to better identify reliable information in news reports and to become better informed about the world in which they live. The course discusses the key elements of journalism
This is a recorded webinar on the launch of ‘Transformative Media Pedagogies’, a book edited by Paul Mihailidis, Sangita Shresthova and Megan Fromm that explores the concept of individual and collective transformation as the underlying driver for media pedagogy. It offers valuable insights and practical strategies for implementing transformative media pedagogies across learning environments and
This course was developed by the Center for Media Literacy (CML) to help people become more informed participants in the complex, global media environment. This 90-minute, self-guided course aims to give you a strong, foundational understanding of the concepts of media literacy. You will explore topics that range from CML’s Five Key Questions and Core