SAMPLE EVENTS
Pop-Up Newsroom
Description: Anyone with a smartphone and access to social media can participate. All you need to do is cover your media literacy events and activities by tweeting, posting, and commenting about what you’re doing on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Encourage participants to collect media literacy stories to facilitate a dialogue on their social media platforms with other students, teachers, community and youth groups, and media professionals. Assign different roles and responsibilities – Twitter, Facebook or Instagram Monitor – to ensure you get the most out of your posts. All posts created on social media across different platforms must share the common hashtags: #MediaLitWk and #BeMediaLit [read more]
Confirmation Bias Video and Online Discussion
Have your students (6th-12th) watch the Above the Noise episode on Confirmation Bias and join the discussion with other students from across the country in KQED Learn. KQED Learn is a free, safe, online space where middle and high school students build essential skills in research, collaboration, data analysis and communication. Sign up as a teacher and register you class to join a discussion. Video description: Confirmation bias wants you to stay in your comfort zone. This cognitive bias causes us to seek out opinions we already agree with and dismiss opposing views–regardless of the facts. Confirmation bias and other cognitive biases are part of being human, but they can also make it hard to keep an open mind. How can we train our brains away from cognitive bias?
Can You Spot Fake News?
In a game show-style format, students and faculty will volunteer as contestants. They will be asked a series of questions about print and video news and also asked to view deep fake videos in an effort to distinguish what is real and fake. Every contestant will win a prize. Food will also be available.
Social Media and Teens Podcast Program
Teens will select topics of interest related to social media awareness and discover how to utilize podcast kits to record their own podcast.
Film Screening: Celling Your Soul
CELLING YOUR SOUL is a powerful and informative examination of how our young people actually feel about connecting in the digital world and their love/hate relationship with technology. It provides empowering strategies for more fulfilling, balanced, and authentic human interaction within the digital landscape. Follow-up Q & A with film director and producer Joni Siani.
Online Safety for Teens
Learn how to keep your personal information safe on social media with Officer Michelle Palladini. Pizza will be provided! Grades 9-12.
Social Media Photo Campaign Project
Teens will become media literacy advocates and creators as they learn how to develop a photo campaign that will educate their peers and the community on social media’s influence on mental health.
We Hear You: By Students, For Students
Students will produce short segments which examine issues of media literacy that they are passionate about. They will complete online forms ahead of time in order to design topics and create production teams. They will create short videos about their topics. We will also have a table set up to shoot person-on-the-street style interviews. All of this will be live-streamed on Facebook.
Media Literacy, Youth Engagement, and Elections
What have we learned since the 2016 presidential election about how elections are covered by the news media? Did the fake news phenomena have an effect on the midterms? Were voters more savvy and more media literate? Did social media continue to play a significant role? We will hear from journalists who covered the elections and students who voted for the first time.
Digital Citizenship Symposium
A Digital Citizenship Symposium is an all-day educational event on Digital Citizenship comprised of breakout sessions on topics including Digital Footprint and Identity, Cyberbullying and Digital Drama, Relationships and Social Media, and Media Literacy. Topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Keeping Students’ Data Safe
2. Social Emotional Learning & Digital Citizenship
3. Digital Footprints – Keeping the Trail Clean
4. A Problem-Based Learning Approach to Digital Citizenship
5. Leading Digital Citizenship: A District Wide Model
6. Building a Culture of Digital Citizenship
7. The Role of Family Support to Digital Citizenship
8. To Screen or Not to Screen: Maintaining a Balance
EDUCATOR RESOURCES
COMMON SENSE EDUCATION
Media Literacy Teaching Resources
Grades 9-12
Digital Citizenship Curriculum
Grades 9-12
KQED EDUCATION
Learn with Media:
Lesson Plans and PD
Humanities
STEM
Grades 6-12
Media Literacy Educator Certification
All educators in K-12
MEDIA SMARTS
“Media Literacy 101”
Introductory video series for students
Media Literacy Lessons + Resources
Search by grade level
PROJECT LOOK SHARP
Curriculum Kits
By Grade Level
News Accuracy and Credibility
2016 Presidential Campaign + Trump Presidency
Climate Change
Economy and Social Justice Issues
ELA
Global Studies
PBS LEARNING
Media Literacy Resources
Search by grade level and/or subject
NEWSEUM ED
Lesson Plans: Media Ethics, Journalism, and Current Events
Grades 9-12
SCHOLASTIC
Separating Fact from Fiction
News Literacy Project
Grades 6-12
Facts First
CNN
Grades 9-12
THE TRUST PROJECT
Trust Indicators
Grades 9+
COPYRIGHT & CREATIVITY
High School Curriculum
Copyright and Fair Use
Grades 9-12
MERIDIAN STORIES
Digital Storytelling Challenges
Grades 6-12