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 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.
How do platforms, media, pressures, and possibilities in young people’s digital lives shape their well-being? Join the Collaborative for Advancing Healthy Experiences in Out-of-School Time (CAHE-OST) for a free virtual training during U.S. Media Literacy Week.
Together, we will explore youth-centered approaches to digital wellness and try a digital mapping activity that you can adapt to help young people reflect on their own media experiences.
The session will focus initially on middle and high school youth, with suggestions for adapting the activity for younger participants. We will also preview upcoming CAHE-OST professional learning experiences and resources on youth voice, media and AI literacy, healthy choices, and supportive adult practices.
McKenzie Sadeghi oversees NewsGuard’s work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and foreign influence, and in tracking state-sponsored propaganda. In a conversation with Deanna Troust of Truth in Common, she’ll share about current trends in disinformation and her reporting, which includes revealing a network of over 150 disinformation-spewing websites run out of Moscow by a former Florida deputy sheriff.