In 2017, the ISD launched Be Internet Citizens in partnership with Google and YouTube, delivering in-school workshops and teacher training in schools across the UK. Our aim is to build young people’s resilience to online harms - including disinformation and hate speech - and empower them to become positive, accountable and conscientious leaders online.
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The content of both the Dutch and the English-language version of Bad News was written by DROG (www.aboutbadnews.com), a Dutch organisation working against the spread of disinformation, in collaboration with researchers at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. The visual and graphic design was done by Gusmanson (www.gusmanson.nl).
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What is bitcoin? Created by Zulfikar Ramzan.
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The Security Mindset: Cybersecurity through Threat Modeling
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My Dig Skills
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MisinfoDay Toolkit: Teach friends and family to find the facts.
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Publisher Overview:News Guard is the publisher of this resource. Branding itself as "The Internet Trust Tool," News Guard is an organization that provides various tools for verifying misinformation online. Key features of News Guard include ratings of online articles based on their nine journalistic standards, news literacy education resources, and background information tools to analyze articles' site ownership.This quiz is one of several resources offered by NewsGuard, funded by Microsoft.
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News Guard is the publisher of this resource. Branding itself as "The Internet Trust Tool," News Guard is an organization that provides various tools for verifying misinformation online. Key features of News Guard include ratings of online articles based on their nine journalistic standards, news literacy education resources, and background information tools to analyze articles' site ownership.This student guide is one of several resources offered by NewsGuard, funded by Microsoft.
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This resource was published by Civix.Help Students Fight Information Pollution Lessons are created by Civix, a Canadian organization developed to support civics and media literacy education.
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This resource was published by Civix. Help Students Fight Information Pollution Videos are created by Civix, a Canadian organization developed to support civics and media literacy education
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**The publisher of this resource is Civix.Help Students Fight Information Pollution Activities are created by Civix, a Canadian organization developed to support civics and media literacy education
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**The publisher of this resource is Civix.Help Students Fight Information Pollution Case Studies are created by Civix, a Canadian organization developed to support civics and media literacy education
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This resource is published by Altice USA. The Digital Smarts Blog resource is a weekly summary of articles related to digital safety including information on digital resources on media literacy, digital safety, misinformation, and other topics that parents and teachers need to stay abreast of.
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This resource is published by the Getting Better Foundation.Trust me documentary is a feature-length film that explores topics on misinformation in the media and builds a case for media literacy education to support skill development and resiliency. Educational licenses with teaching, collegiate, and parental guides are available at www.newday.com/film/trust-me.
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**This resource was published by the News Literacy Project.The News Literacy Project is identified as a “nonpartisan national educational nonprofit” designed to strengthen critical thinking skills and actively seek out credible information. NLP’s strategic framework highlights that in a Stanford History Education Group research, 96% of high school participants “failed to challenge the credibility of a source.” Additionally, over 50% of high school participants “incorrectly classified evidence as ‘strong.’’ Based on this and other educational research findings, NLP’s aims to advocate and equip educators and learners with programs and resources to promote media literacy. Users have the option of subscribing to NLP to receive up-to-date resources and research that is conducted. Further information can be found here: https://checkology.org/Cost and other restrictions: This is a free resource. However, to use it, educators and learners will need to provide an email address and other contact information.
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This resource is published by Civix.Ctrl-F is a unit created by Civix, a Canadian organization developed to support civics and media literacy education. This unit teaches students how to verify facts and information when reading informational text online.
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**This resource is published by Learning for Justice.Digital and Civic Literacy Skills is an online website created by Learning for Justice and is a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The website includes videos and lessons for students to learn digital and civic literacy skills.
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**This resource is published by Common Sense Education.The Digital Citizenship Curriculum (K-12) is a free research-based curriculum. Students will learn news and media literacy skills to better assist them with reading and navigating content online.
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**This resource is published by Common Sense Education.News and Media Literacy Resource Center is a curated collection of free quality teaching resources that cover news literacy, media literacy and social/cultural literacy.
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***This resource is published by Cassie Kozyrhov.Cassie is Head of Decision Intelligence at Google and this is her video channel. It provides short video clips on stats, AI, data, and decision science. May serve as a supplemental resource.
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