NEA Today lists News Literacy Project resources among tools to fight misinformation

Published on October 17, 2024 NLP in the News

NEA Today, a publication of the National Education Association labor union, notes that only a few states mandate that media literacy be taught in schools – even as young people increasingly struggle to make sense of an online onslaught of facts, opinions, rumors and news. But critical thinking skills can still be built into learning with tools like the News Literacy Project’s RumorGuard, the organization’s Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024 and Newsroom to Classroom journalist visits.

“Students are growing up in an ‘infodemic’ where they are presented with copious amounts of information,” said Brittney Smith, a Senior Manager of District Partnerships for NLP.

Read the NEA Today story here.

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