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Teenagers Who Use Social Media

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This social media influencer engages a young audience and warns about the political manipulation of the media we watch.

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This influencer uses a visual example of the deceptiveness of media, and warns viewers not to mindlessly pass every video as fact.

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This influencer markets a website geared towards media literacy.

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Why we’re making more videos on media literacy

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This video has eye-catching graphic design and breaks down the definition and importance of media literacy.

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Can you explain the concept of 'media literacy' and why it's important today?

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This video is an interview of someone who, at first glance, appears to be a media literacy professional. The video also links an informative organization at the end in order to spread the message.

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Elizabeth Daley Interview: Why You Need Media Literacy | The Thread

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Are your students savvy searchers? Can they spot the difference between a straight news article and an opinion piece? Do they recognize bias in their sources ... or in themselves?

Tackle these challenges and more using Fact Finder's 11 flexible, multimedia lesson plans. Eight skill-building lesson plans introduce essential media literacy concepts through engaging explainer videos and colorful infographics that help students revisit, retain and apply the key concepts. The accompanying News or Noise? Media Map provides a collection of examples ready for students to analyze and evaluate with the support of worksheets and discussion prompts. Three reporting lesson plans help students take what they've learned and apply it to their own content creation, inspired by the issues that matter to them.

Adapting Fact Finder for Your Classroom

From Key Ideas to Complete Curriculum

Polish one particular skill or take your students on a comprehensive journey from news novices to media masters. We designed this suite of 11 lesson plans and their corresponding resources to be used either as a complete curriculum or individually. There's also flexibility within each lesson plan to complete the whole thing or choose individual resources and smaller activities.
Building New Skills and Ideas
Each lesson plan's format is inspired by the 5-E's constructivist instructional model (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate). For students new to media literacy or news consumption, the opening "engage" activity along with the explainer video and infographic may be enough to build their awareness of key concepts. More advanced students can put these concepts into action as they navigate the News or Noise? map with the help of worksheets to guide their application. Those who have already developed their media savvy can still be challenged to elaborate by applying the infographic tips and methods to the boundless content available online.
A Cross-Disciplinary, Standards-Driven Toolbox
No matter what subject you teach, bringing elements of media literacy and journalism into your curriculum can benefit your students and help you meet standards, including Common Core requirements for analyzing sources, creating content and using non-print texts. Media literacy empowers students to conduct better research and make better arguments, whether the topic is the Civil War or the biological impact of GMOs.

The challenges today's media landscape poses for our students and for all of us can be daunting. But we hope this collection of content provides an approachable way to help your students hone their ability to find quality content and begin creating their own to share with the world.

- The NewseumED Team

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Fact Finder: Your Foolproof Guide to Media Literacy

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Are your students savvy searchers? Can they spot the difference between a straight news article and an opinion piece? Do they recognize bias in their sources ... or in themselves? Tackle these challenges and more using Fact Finder's 11 flexible, multimedia lesson plans.

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Nuseumed is a website with a plethora of tools geared towards a younger audience to help garner media literacy skills. The website is interactive and artfully designed.

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These strategies work for their target because the information is bite-size and accessible to a younger audience. Some of the media use flashy, attention-grabbing tactics, while others resort to reputability and sophistication to generate trust in their audience. When grabbing the attention of teenagers who use social media, it is best to make content that works with a short attention span, rather than against it.

These educational strategies align with media literacy principles because they warn the audience about the influx of deceptive and untrustworthy content via social media. They highlight the importance of engaging in media with a critical eye, rather than mindlessly consuming. It is also important that they utilize the same platforms that they are warning against, proving that with proper awareness, the platforms can be used beneficially.

From my own personal media experience, especially when I was a teenager, I would have benefited from seeing more media literacy campaigns across social media. Over the years, I often heard more complaints about the dilemma of media misinformation than I heard solutions and explanations for it. After studying Media Literacy, I feel more aware when engaging in media, and I think more often about where the information is coming from, rather than taking it at face value.