What to believe? Challenges in the classroom

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An administrator in a New York charter school said of her students: “They’re under the impression that if it’s found in print, it’s there because someone has determined that it’s reliable.”
Jules Mermelstein, a lawyer turned history and government teacher in a high school in a Philadelphia suburb, said, “One of my seniors insisted all year that Barack Obama is a Muslim who is being planted by the terrorists to destroy the government from within. His evidence? He received a blast e-mail that said it and even brought it up on the computer to show it to me as ‘evidence.’”
More schools are beginning to integrate visual and digital media literacy into their lesson plans.  As a teacher, student or parent, what challenges do you face in the ways that young people obtain, assess and create news and information?

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Understanding bias in the news media

A News Literacy Project webinar for educators shared practical advice and tips to help students regain trust in credible news and to question faulty beliefs about media bias.

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Newsweek quotes NLP CEO Salter on solution to lack of news literacy

News Literacy Project CEO and President Charles Salter responded to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments on the need for news literacy in preserving democracy, while underscoring NLP’s focus on a solution. “We agree with Justice Sotomayor that the lack of news literacy skills today poses a danger to all of us. But we also…

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