Dive into the tools and skills that you and your patrons need to verify the authenticity of user-generated content, and learn how to create engaging fact-checking investigations that will empower learners to detect and debunk misinformation online. News Literacy Project (NLP) covers topics such as developing keen observation skills that help detect images circulating in a false context; using reverse image searches to find the origins of a digital image; using webpage archivers to explore deleted or changed content; and using Google Street View to explore and confirm details of locations around the world. This webinar will help you boost your own skills and give you confidence to help patrons evaluate their sources, too. The session will also include a brief overview of NLP’s work with public libraries and strategies for adapting its resources for non-school settings.

Presented by: Peter Adams, Senior Vice President of Education, and Damaso Reyes, Director of Partnerships, at the News Literacy Project; and Maryanne Olson, Assistant Community Library Manager, Queens Public Library

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Related Resources and Links

• News Literacy Project
  • The Sift, weekly newsletter with relevant media news and recent examples of misinformation, and tips on engaging learners in news literacy.
  • Civics Connections, blog sharing ideas, strategies and resources for integrating news literacy skills into civics-aligned curriculum to encourage greater civic engagement among students.
    
  • Give Facts a Fighting Chance: A Global Playbook for Teaching News Literacy (pdf)
  • Checkology®
• Additional links referenced in skills/tools portion:
  • Resource Hub
  • Street view on Imgur
  • First Draft Geolocation Challenge
  • First Draft Verification Toolbox
  • images.google.com
  • tineye.com
  • yandex.com/images
  • InVID Fake video news debunker Chrome extension
  • Digital Verification Guides from Bellingcat
  • “Anatomy of a Killing” by BBC’s Africa Eye
  • Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, by Safiya Umoja Noble
• ALA's Media Literacy @ Your Library and Learning and Prototyping Report (pdf), 2018