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News Center Maine, the NBC affiliate in Portland, dropped in on a school in Damariscotta where reading teacher John Cannon is using NLP’s Checkology® virtual classroom to give his students the critical-thinking skills to separate fact from fiction. Parents were also put to the test. One of those parents, Heather Kiersted, praised the online platform…

The council will offer guidance on outreach and advocacy to NLP staff and board members and will support NLP financially and through introductions and appearances at events. Members will serve an initial term of four years. Camerota is the co-host of CNN’s morning program, New Day. She joined CNN in 2014 after 16 years at…

I had left my 21-year career at the Los Angeles Times with the idea of connecting journalists and educators to teach middle school and high school students how to know what to believe in the digital age. Little did I know that I would become recognized as a founder of the field of news literacy…

NLP’s Checkology® virtual classroom is a great tool for educators who want to teach their students what to trust and share in the digital age, says Jessica Lander, an author and a high school teacher in Lowell, Massachusetts. “The News Literacy Project (NLP) has created an online platform, Checkology, with hours of virtual lessons covering everything…

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, has donated $250,000 to the News Literacy Project to help further its mission and reach. By doing so, says Stephen Sawchuk, an associate editor of Education Week, Bezos is underscoring his support for reputable journalism. “Media literacy has gained more attention in this…

As news literacy has gained such an important seat at the table of civic discourse, we at NLP have seen a massive amount of new interest in our programs. Jeff’s generous gift underscores this in a major way and will help us expand the fight for facts. His support comes at a moment of enormous…

Young people are leading the charge in the fight against “fake news,” according to a Jan. 12 column in The Boston Globe. Bernhard Warner interviewed Kyle Eichner and Catherine Griffin, two of the more than 10,000 educators around the world who have registered to use NLP’s Checkology® virtual classroom. Their students are learning to decide…

In an op-ed for The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., NLP’s Peter Adams discusses the importance of news literacy and provides tips to fight “fake news.” “To be meaningfully engaged with the world around us, we must be informed,” he writes. “But what does that mean in an age of information overload in which so…

Quartz recently visited a New York City school where students are learning to discern fact from fiction using NLP’s Checkology® virtual classroom. Eighth graders at George Jackson Academy were given real-world examples of information found online and asked to determine if the content was news, opinion, entertainment, propaganda or something else. “Students do need more practice…

Classrooms aren’t the only place where news literacy is taught. David Beard of the Poynter Institute describes how libraries are teaching their adult patrons how to know what to believe in the digital age. One of their tools: NLP’s Checkology® virtual classroom.