Whether scrolling through social media or conducting research for term papers, students encounter a startlingly wide range of news and media daily. With the start of the school year, how can you set the stage in the classroom for your students to think critically about what they read, watch, and hear online? What steps can you take to help students understand and analyze their information landscape, and how can you lay the foundation for responsible digital citizenship?

In this edWebinar, hear creative ideas, advice, and solutions to these questions from some of the News Literacy Project’s NewsLit Nation ambassadors, educators who serve as community news literacy advocates. These educators will share how they engage students in classroom discussions and activities that develop critical news and media literacy skills such as identifying credible information, seeking out reliable sources, and understanding the role of a free press in a democracy.

Along with examples to use immediately in your classroom, you will also learn about the News Literacy Project’s free educator resources for integrating news literacy concepts into the classroom, including the NewsLit Nation educator resources and forum, the Checkology^® virtual classroom, and The Sift newsletter.

This edWebinar will be of interest to K-12 teachers, librarians, school and district leaders, and education technology leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenters

Allie Niese is a James Madison Fellow and a graduate of Northwestern’s MSEd program. She is committed to helping students learn to embrace and understand their roles in the American political system through civil dialogue and rich understanding of the Constitution. She teaches AP U.S. government, civics, U.S. history, and AP human geography in Chicago Public Schools.

Molly June Roquet (she/they) is the education librarian at Saint Mary’s College of California. A former public librarian and middle school history teacher, Molly holds a bachelor’s degree in history from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in library and information science from Wayne State University. They have presented at the American Library Association and California Library Association annual conferences and have written for Computers in Libraries and Information Today magazines. Molly strives to add a critical, anti-racist lens to media and news literacy education and is a News Literacy Project ambassador.

Debbie Keen is a high school teacher at the Career and Technical Education Center in Frisco, Texas, specializing in legal studies electives for high school students interested in pursuing careers in law or public service. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and promotes civics education in classrooms across the country. She has presented teacher workshops with groups like the State Bar of Texas Law-Related Education, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and The Center for American and International Law. When she is not teaching, she enjoys traveling and learning alongside other creative teachers. In 2018, she founded the Youth Safety and Civility Alliance to promote civil discourse and conflict resolution strategies for young people. The American Lawyers Alliance gave her a 2020 Teacher of the Year Award.

About the Moderator

After serving many years as an elementary and secondary teacher, Kristi Hemingway transitioned to the role of instructional coach and professional developer, working with teachers to improve literacy practices and helping districts across the country implement new curricula and instructional strategies. She is a journalist whose writing can be found in local and national publications and has worked internationally to develop and deliver training, workshops, and instruction for a wide variety of audiences and institutions. Using her communications background, she’s happy to be leading EdCuration’s podcast, Where We Reshape Learning, and spearheading Explorations and #EdTrustees.

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Time: 5:00 pm — 6:00 pm EDT

Free!

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