As the 2024 election season approaches, we are again faced with an onslaught on information, misinformation, and disinformation about candidates, issues, and the election process itself. What impact, if any, do the media have on U.S. elections? How can we strive to educate ourselves and others with the best information to make informed choices? At this panel session, the authors of the recent article “Prebunking Election Fraud: Strategies to Confront Conspiracy Theories” (in Social Education) will provide a brief primer of the different roles the media plays in politics and how citizens can contextualize and interpret information from various media sources.
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
Host a “Trust Me” virtual watch party at your home, school, library, or with your employee resource group! The Walter Cronkite Excellence in Journalism awarded film brings awareness to people’s need for media literacy to foster peace, hope, resilience, trust, lessen polarization, and preserve democracy. It features stories from around the globe filmed by Oscar-nominated Roko Belic and experts like Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, Poynter’s Aaron Sharockman, Pulitzer Prized Journalist Jeffrey Gettleman, and Black Girl Film Camp’s Jimmeka Anderson.
Join the UW’s Center for an Informed Public and WSU’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication from your classroom as we learn how to navigate complex information environments and make informed decisions about what to believe online.
How will MisinfoDay In Your Classroom work this year?
1. MisinfoDay In Your Classroom Resource Walkthrough, October 7 from 6–7 p.m. PT. In this virtual event co-hosted with Teachers for an Informed Public, MisinfoDay program manager Liz Crouse will review the MisinfoDay Resource Library and walk you through “What’s Your Frame? How We Make Sense of Uncertain Situations,” a new lesson created by CIP co-founder Kate Starbird that helps students understand how people can look at the same set of facts and come to different conclusions – about the existence of aliens, the legitimacy of elections, and everything in between. (Clock hours offered for WA educators!)
2. Access misinformation-themed escape room materials to play online or in person at lokisloop.org.
3. Use one of the lessons or escape room with your students during U.S. Media Literacy Week. We’ll provide access for educators to a MisinfoDay padlet where you can share photos and takeaways from your class and make connections across classrooms.