The Feed Effect: How Your Online World is Built for You

How much of your online world is actually shaped by you? And how much is being shaped for you?

During U.S. Media Literacy Week, NAMLE’s Youth Advisory Council will lead a high school class through The Feed Effect: How Your Online World Is Built for You, an interactive exploration of how our online behavior, data, algorithms, and personalized feeds are all connected.

Led by students, for students, this session will help participants think more critically about their digital experiences, ask better questions about how their feeds are built, and consider how they can make more informed choices about the media they encounter online.

Unlocking Generative AI Safety and Responsibly

Cyberlite, with support from Microsoft, is introducing the newly expanded AI Classroom Toolkit: Unlocking Generative AI Safely and Responsibly. Whether educators are AI experts or just getting started, the toolkit offers a practical way to bring important conversations about AI safety and critical thinking into the classroom. The webinar will introduce new classroom-ready resources focused on critical thinking, verification, and media and AI literacy, along with the new What Type of AI User Are You? interactive quiz.

Spot the Technique: A Daily Challenge with Real 2026 Political Ads

Spot the technique: a free, self-paced daily challenge for Media Literacy Week. Each day from October 26 to 30, two real 2026 political ads go up on semblen.com, one from each side, built around the same persuasion technique (name calling, glittering generalities, exaggeration, appeal to fear, loaded language). Readers pick the techniques they see, then compare their answers with Semblen’s analysis, which marks the exact words and explains each technique in a sentence. It judges wording, not which side is right, and disagreeing with the machine, for a reason, counts. Takes about five minutes a day; works as a classroom warm-up, with a free 45-minute lesson plan at semblen.com/classroom. No sign-up, no student data, no ads.