Date
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Time
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Location Name
RL 24
Name
It’s Easy as ABC: Cutting Through the Tech Noise with Media Literacy
Description
The importance of media literacy is clear, but how can we embed it across the curriculum? As a media literacy teacher for 13 years, my curriculum has adapted to include fake websites, political bias, deep fakes, and chat bots. What I have found is that, no matter how the technology evolves, the students need the same basic skills. I have developed a framework for teaching students how to determine credibility of sources, fact check information and evaluate potential biases with a simple method called the ABCs. The session will walk through each strategy- author, bias and check- through hands-on activities. Participants will test their own fact checking skills and leave with concrete examples of lessons that they can embed in any subject area. In addition, teachers will be shown samples of student learning that have occurred in a variety of grade levels. The participants will engage in discussions about how the skills can be scaled up or down to reach students from K-12.
Speakers
Session Type
Traditional Workshop
Track
Library/Media Literacy
Secondary Track
Digital Wellness/Digital Citizenship
Primary Audience
Elementary/Middle School
Fall Conference Strands
Educate
MA DLCS Strands
Computing and Society, Digital Tools and Collaboration