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Audience: Children and Young People

Inoculation Science

This website from the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab brings together research and resources on inoculation theory applied to misinformation. It provides 3 games, explanatory videos and research explaining inoculation theory and how it helps build resistance against manipulation.  Please click on the link below to access the content: Inoculation Science – Home

Analysing Bias

This resource developed by Learning for Justice aims to teach students to identify how writers can reveal their biases through their word choice and tone. Students will be able to identify “charged” words that communicate a point of view and understand how writers communicate an opinion implicitly by writing their own charged news stories. Please

MediaWise Youtube Channel

The MediaWise Youtube channel is a program of The Poynter Institute, which aims to teach people how to navigate the online world and identify misinformation through digital media literacy initiatives. The videos submitted by MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network are made by young people and contain media literacy tips.   Please click on the link below

Digital Citizenship Curriculum

The Digital Citizenship Curriculum provides lesson plans and short videos for various age groups in schools that look at news and media literacy. These resources were developed by Common Sense Education who are based in the US. They address critical issues facing children in a fast-changing world of media and technology.   Please click on the

Civic Online Reasoning

The Civic Online Reasoning research-based curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group. It offers lessons and assessments to help students evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world. Please click on the link below to access the content: https://cor.stanford.edu/curriculum/

Checkology – News Literacy Project

Checkology is a free e-learning platform with lessons on media literacy through which learners develop the ability to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources and apply critical thinking skills to separate fact-based content from falsehoods. Predominantly for secondary, some for primary aged students.   Please click on the link below to access the content:

Cyber Academy

Cyber Academy is an internet safety resource for parents and teachers developed by Trend Micro that covers topics related to digital, information and media literacy. Each episode consists of a short animated video, a conversation guide to support parents / teachers, a quiz and activity sheet to reinforce learning and takes about 15 min to complete.

Social Media Literacy

This is an Educational Toolkit for Social Media Literacy developed by an Erasmus+ project with institutions from Romania, Belgium, Italy and Portugal to encourage teachers to use and teach social media literacy in the classroom. 9 modules with activity plans, learning outcomes, training material, resources, learning take aways, infographics. Please click on the link below