This is an introductory guide for adult literacy and adult education practitioners who wish to build their students’ knowledge, understanding, skills and confidence in critical thinking, media and digital literacy. Co-published by 80:20 – Educating and Acting for a Better World and NALA (National Adult Literacy Agency). Please click on the link below to access
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
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
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
This is a six-week course that helps 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 we live. This course was developed by the University of Hong Kong and Stony Brook University and requires a log in.
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
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 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: