Education webcast, article discuss importance of critical thinking

The News Literacy Project’s research shows that 8 in 10 teens see conspiracy theories on their social feeds, and of those, 81% believe in at least one. In a first-person piece for The 74, Hannah Covington, the News Literacy Project’s Senior Director of Education Content, shares what teens in Oklahoma told her about learning to…

Viral rumors and falsehoods have spread in the wake of political protests, particularly recent ones opposing detentions by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. In a story for Mashable, Peter Adams, Senior Vice president of Research and Design at the News Literacy Project, offered tips for news consumers to avoid getting tricked by false…

An opinion piece in EducationWeek by two educators from New York featured the News Literacy Project’s District Fellowship program. The commentary described how the program supported their efforts to teach students to critically evaluate health and wellness claims on social media. “By the end, our teens had developed habits of healthy skepticism when scrolling their…