Recognize misinformation and stop it in its tracks by using RumorGuard’s 5 Factors for evaluating credibility of news and other information. This classroom poster displays the 5 Factors alongside “Knows” and “Dos” for evaluating credibility.
Misinformation thrives during major news events and can spread rapidly on social media by tapping into people’s beliefs and values to provoke an emotional reaction. Pushing back against falsehoods in today’s information environment is no small task, but a few simple tools can go a long way in the fight for facts. This week, we talk to Seana Davis, a journalist with the Reuters Fact Check team, about her work monitoring, detecting and debunking false claims online.
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.
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.
In our second SGEN episode, Dani Sloan takes the host's seat and shares some more good education news! She highlights an array of unique graduation stories and goes in-depth with Bridgette Barrowes about the necessity to have a dialogue about race with other teachers and students to overcome uncertainties. Share your good education news with us with #uengoodnews. Stay safe, be kind and keep learning!
In our inaugural episode of "Some Good Education News", Michael Hakkarinen from the Utah Education Network shares some good news from right here in Utah! Stories from across the state are given a much-deserved spotlight along with a special in-depth interview with principal Kim Schaefer. Jared Fawson shares some of the new features of Gale InfoBits. Share your good education news with us with #uengoodnews. Stay safe, be kind and keep learning!