Students examine propaganda and media bias, research a variety of banned and challenged books, choose a side of the censorship issue, and support their position through an advertising campaign.

Join USBE library media specialist Davina Sauthoff for a News Literacy Project webinar to discover how to teach students about misinformation — what it is, how it functions, how to spot it, and how to debunk it. Learn more about our FREE, browser-based, standards-aligned platform for teaching news literacy along with our other resources.

Join USBE's Library Media Specialist Davina Sauthoff in a News Literacy Project webinar on AI's Impact. The state of today’s digital landscape includes challenges posed by generative artificial intelligence. Explore strategies for helping determine the credibility of evidence and sources as well as best practices for teaching about misinformation and conspiratorial thinking.

The internet is inconceivably large and essentially endless! It can be a struggle to find accurate information. Understanding search algorithms can equip students with the ability to Google like a pro! Understanding how a program works helps use a program effectively. Join USBE library media specialist Davina Sauthoff for a News Literacy Project webinar where we share eight tips to help improve search results. 

Join USBE Library Media Specialist Davina Sauthoff in a webinar that explores what happens when you encounter information that leaves you scratching your head and wondering whether it’s credible, an advertisement, or even propaganda. If you simply go down the rabbit hole of the site that posted or created it, you likely won’t get the clarity or context you need to make an informed decision; instead, you most often get submersed in confirmation bias. So instead of going deep, go wide: employ lateral reading.

Join USBE Library Media Specialist Davina Sauthoff in a News Literacy Project webinar that explores NLP's Checkology activities, challenges, and lessons. Take a deep dive into news literacy with lessons that develop and strengthen skills, enabling students to successfully and intelligently navigate our complex information landscape. 

Join USBE Library Media Specialist Davina Sauthoff in a News Literacy Project webinar to explore how news and media literacy can support your goals. What do we want students to experience? What skills do we want students to have when they graduate? We will explore Newsroom to Classroom, an awesome opportunity to connect students to experts in the field. 

Join USBE's Library Media Specialist Davina Sauthoff in the News Literacy Project webinar exploring their New, STEM-aligned lessons featuring topics such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines, medical misinformation, pseudoscience, and conspiratorial thinking. These cross-curricular lessons support the development of science and engineering practices, such as analyzing and interpreting data, engaging in arguments using evidence, and using mathematics and computational thinking. This lays the foundation for students to think critically and evaluate and interpret information, and students learn what to trust, share, and act on.