Led by the News Literacy Project, this week highlights the need to restore trust in news journalism, improve media literacy, and keep us all grounded in facts.
News Literacy Week’s website provides tools and resources for parents, teachers, and other concerned adults in order to help kids and teens – and ourselves – navigate today’s media environment, and we’re joining in.
Earn your Easy A this week by watching this short video with 5 Easy Ways to Check a News Source:
Understanding and modeling news literacy like this for our kids and teens is important. Next week, we’ll take one more action as part of National News Literacy Week – see you then!
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