Students need to learn new skills to help them navigate the social media landscape they inhabit. One skill I spend time teaching my grade seven students is how to identify examples of misinformation and disinformation online. As outlined below, there are many types of misinformation and disinformation. While teaching about

Learning how to critically analyze the media we see is an essential skill for students to learn and practice. In my grade seven class, we start our study of media literacy by learning how to analyze news media, by evaluating supporting evidence, identifying bias, and investigating how topics are portrayed

Why teach about medial literacy and critical thinking in schools? At the beginning of the pandemic, I noticed a rise in misinformation and disinformation online surrounding masking, vaccinations and COVID. This spurred me to spend more time teaching my students the skills for assessing the accuracy of online information. Below