Finally, A Tool that Unlocks Information Literacy for Students

Join your fellow educators for an engaging online event featuring Sooth—the only internet search platform designed to enhance information literacy and critical thinking for students from middle school through college. Sooth enables learners to search exclusively across thousands of credible news, research, and information sources entirely free of ads, unreliable content, and distractions. Sooth helps learners cultivate and enhance their information literacy skills with features like AllSides Media Bias Ratings and NewsGuard Trust Scores. We will also explore our one-of-a-kind misinformation toolkit where students can engage and critique real instances of misinformation, an increasingly urgent skill in our complicated content landscape. This interactive session will provide practical examples and strategies that you can apply directly in your classroom. Participants will also receive a special Promo Code to begin using Sooth in their classrooms immediately.

Watch 2min demo: https://vimeo.com/914852640
Sign-up for 30-day free trial: https://app.sooth.fyi/signup
FAQ: https://sooth.fyi/faq

You Are Here: Charting the Course for Media Literacy for All

Featuring: Donnell Probst
Deputy Director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education

As it becomes increasingly challenging to navigate the fire hose of information. It isn’t enough to simply distinguish between fact and fiction. We must strive to understand information, its intention, influence, and impact.

This event will offer an overview of media literacy education. She will explore
● why media literacy is critical at every age
● what resources are needed to understand
● what effective media literacy education looks like in the classroom
● national efforts pushing for its implementation nationwide

Amplifying Media Literacy: Equitable Media Literacy and the “Minds Over Media” Podcast

Media literacy is the key to nurturing informed, discerning, and empowered students. Join us for a discussion designed to explore big questions about media literacy and education in our podcast “Minds Over Media” that features 10 of the leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Topics of the podcasts include stereotypes, balancing media consumption, diversity, equity, and inclusion in media, and civic media. Learn more about professional development opportunities for teachers and discover practical strategies for integrating content into your curriculum, fostering analytical thinking, and empowering students to navigate the complex landscape of media with confidence.

Developing Critical Thinkers: How PBS KIDS is Approaching Media Literacy

Kids are growing up in a media-rich world surrounded by changing technology and with digital devices at their fingertips. PBS KIDS strives to help kids safely navigate these experiences by creating engaging, educational content that supports foundational media literacy skills — providing the tools kids need to think critically and imaginatively about media and its messages, and encouraging them to be responsible media creators. In this panel, children’s media producers and PBS KIDS colleagues will discuss the strategies being used to foster media literacy skills for young learners and ways they are incorporating media literacy education into PBS KIDS content.

Register for free as a 2024 U.S. Media Literacy Week participant, and you will automatically be registered for this event.