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iCivics
iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship
Newsfeed Defender
Welcome to Newsably, a fictional social media site focused on news and information. Your mission? Maintain the site, grow traffic, and watch out! You'll also need to spot fake posts that try to sneak in through hidden ads, viral deception, and false reporting.
Newsfeed Defender Extension Pack
Make your students’ game play more meaningful with activities designed specifically for NewsFeed Defenders. This easy-to-use resource set means deeper learning for students and best practices around game-centered learning for you!

Extension Packs require PowerPoint and are designed for use with projectors or interactive whiteboards.

Civic Online Reasoning
The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.
Sorting Truth From Fiction: Civic Online Reasoning
By the end of this course, you will:
*Learn two key practices employed by professional fact checkers to sort truth from fiction: Lateral Reading and Click Restraint
*Evaluate information online by focusing on the credibility of sources
*Learn why common approaches to online information literacy, like website evaluation checklists, are NOT effective ways of sorting truth from fiction online
*Use free resources from the Civic Online Reasoning website to teach effective online evaluation strategies to your students.
*Develop lesson plans and curriculum strategies for teaching Civic Online Reasoning in your classroom and across the curriculum.
Sorting Truth From Fiction: Civic Online Reasoning Practice Space Sharing Guide
We designed this guide to help you share the practice spaces from the course
with colleagues. It includes a variety of resources, including a model meeting
agenda, proposed discussion questions, debrief materials, and links to additional
resources.

News Literacy Project
NLP, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.
Is That a Fact? Podcast
Is that a fact?, NLP's new podcast, features experts who address the question, “How can American democracy survive and thrive in our toxic information environment?”
The Sift
The Sift, NLP’s free weekly newsletter for educators — delivered weekly during the school year — explores timely examples of misinformation, addresses media and press freedom topics and discusses social media trends and issues. It also includes links, discussion prompts and activities for use in the classroom.

Media Manipulation Casebook
The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns. This resource is intended for researchers, journalists, technologists, policymakers, educators, and civil society organizers who want to learn about detecting, documenting, describing, and debunking misinformation.