🤖 Go-to resources for teaching about AI

🌟 Bonnie Bastian Insider Spotlight

📌 Register for our National News Literacy Conference!

Your students are already living with AI — using it to search, create and make sense of the world. The harder question is whether they know how to think critically about it. 

That’s what our newly updated Teaching About AI page is designed for. Whether you’re introducing the basics or helping students interrogate how AI shapes the information they encounter, the page brings together resources built for real classroom use. 

One of its most practical features is a curated collection of RumorGuard posts on AI-related topics — deepfakes, manipulated images, misleading claims about AI tools themselves. Recent examples include an AI slop trend recycling firefighter puppy rescues and a viral AI video falsely showing an earthquake rattling a customer’s McDonald’s fries. Each post comes paired with ready-to-use slides, so a timely example can become a discussion or a bell ringer without extra prep on your end. And because RumorGuard is updated regularly, there’s always something new and relevant to bring into class. 

Another highlight is our Two Truths and AI video series, designed to help students sharpen their critical thinking skills around AI. Each episode makes AI literacy engaging, interactive and perfect for classroom discussion – and we’ll be rolling out even more over the coming weeks. Find the playlist linked a bit further down on the Teaching About AI page (or you can find the series on YouTube). 

AI isn’t slowing down, and neither are your students’ questions. Our resource page is built to grow with both!  

Welcome to Insider Spotlight, where we feature real questions from our team and answers from educators who are making a difference teaching news literacy. This month, our featured educator is  Bonnie Bastian, who teaches communications and digital literacy courses for deaf and hard-of-hearing college students in Rochester, New York.

Ready to join us Oct. 8-10 in Salt Lake City, Utah? In case you missed it, registration for our inaugural National News Literacy Conference is open! This is a unique opportunity to connect with fellow educators, researchers and advocates who are passionate about empowering students to navigate today’s complex information landscape. Whether you’re just beginning to incorporate news literacy into your practice or you’re a seasoned practitioner, our conference has something for everyone. Beginning Aug. 1, prices will increase as we move to late and onsite registration.

Last month, We Are Teachers published a “Teacher Picks” review of our Checkology® virtual classroom by Kansas educator Amy Brownlee. We were excited to read about how much Amy’s students were drawn to the videos in the interactive lessons (with some who “even asked if they could use Checkology during their free time”). If you haven’t used Checkology yet this school year, make sure to check out Amy’s review to get an educator’s perspective on this tool, or grab our free poster bundle at We Are Teachers before the school year ends. 

If you missed our edWebinar, Cultivating Concern for Credible Information: Teaching Teens About News and Civic Participation, watch the recording! You’ll learn how to help students develop a personal code of ethics to guide their participation in today’s information environment.

Click here to take the poll and be entered into a raffle to win NLP swag! 

 Congrats to Martha Burgess for winning last month’s giveaway! 

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