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NewsLit Nation, NLP's national educator network, provides teachers with a platform to learn from each other, establish best practices, and help work news literacy into all subjects areas.

Curricular bazaar Teachers Pay Teachers has never been more popular. But questions about quality, cultural insensitivity, and plagiarism beg expert guidance. Consider your librarian.  

The News Literacy Project is offering a four-part professional development series; Choose Your Own Adventure in ebooks; a new Capstone platform; the final days to apply for the Bechtel Fellowship; and more in this edition of News Bites.

Disinformation is surging. So are novel ways to counter it.

The News Literacy Project senior vice president for education and SLJTeen Live! lunchtime speaker answers your queries.

More schools are consider new ways to add news literacy and SEL to their teaching. There’s never been a better time to combine these efforts.

Four strategies to decode messaging and motive in meme design.

Strategies to help students determine determine whether a video has been altered include analyzing what motivates people to create fakes in the first place. 

News looks different depending on the device it's viewed on. Educators need to address that, say Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins in the first article in a series on news literacy.

To help the next generation learn the "fundamental life skill" of news literacy, the organizations will educate people of all ages on how to identify misinformation and the importance of a free press.

Students have traditionally accepted information in textbooks without question. But In high schools throughout the country, that's starting to change. 

Several panels at the 2019 Association of American Librarians National Conference focused on the urgent need for better information literacy and advocating on behalf of school libraries. 

High-profile educators like to talk about tech tools and other products they like. We need to know if they’re being paid to do so.

SLJ asked librarians to describe the best tools they could imagine to teach information literacy—and got more than simple answers.

School libraries are key to information literacy, and investment will drive impact.  

Evaluating sources and using information effectively is critical. The right tools and support can help librarians teach these skills better, according to SLJ’s survey of middle and high school librarians.

Inspired and informed by her academic peers, a K-12 school librarian rethinks her entire approach to college readiness.

Here's an information literacy action plan to support college-bound students.

A new tool to help teach students which news outlets to trust; the UN releases its second book club list; and libraries are having their moment on Jeopardy! 

Colby Sharp, one of the creators of the first Nerd Camp, offers his advice for hosting your own version of the popular education camps with a literacy twist.

These exercises in visual communication and short story analysis can impact students' understanding of library instruction and information literacy.