WEBINAR 4/26/22, 4-5pm
Special Offer
Learning Tours are a MassCUE membership benefit.
However for this tour we have a special offer that any educator may join!
Young people today are dealing with the most challenging information landscape in human history. Digital tools, combined with social media, make it easy for anyone to create and spread misinformation and disinformation. Truth, evidence and facts compete for attention alongside rumors, conspiracy theories and false information. In this timely webinar, we will explore free digital tools and resources available through the News Literacy Project, and learn how to easily integrate news literacy across subject areas and grade levels, in both remote and in person learning. You will leave with concrete tools, strategies and lesson plan ideas to spark meaningful classroom discussion as well as to provide students with the tools needed to evaluate and interpret information.
Topics covered include:
- What it means to be news-literate — an overview of news literacy education
- Teaching digital verification skills to spark news literacy learning
- Evaluating the quality of standards-based journalism
- Exploring the misinformation landscape
- Understanding bias
- Using news literacy to drive civic engagement
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 19, 2022
MassCUE Learning Tours are an opportunity for educators to experience innovative, best practices in teaching and learning – while using digital learning tools. Educators will present a best practice or digital tool that has worked well in a learning environment.
Course Details
| Audience | K-12 Teachers, Library Media & Tech Specialists, Ed Leaders |
| Level | All Levels K-12 |
| Instructor | Cathy Collins |
| Date and Time | Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 4:00-5:00PM
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| Earn | 1 PDPs |
| Location | Online Webinar (Meeting Link to be sent to attendees 48 hours prior to event) |
| MassCUE Member Cost | Free |
| Non-Member Cost | Free |
| Limit | 25 Participants |
| Prerequisite | None |
Cathy Collins
Cathy Collins has worked as a Library Media & Technology Specialist for 23 years at the K-12 level. She is currently serving as a Technology Teacher at Sharon Middle School, where she teaches Engineering & Design, Media Literacy and a hybrid STEM/history course called “Inventions through Time.” She holds a Doctorate in Education with a specialization in Curriculum, Leadership, Teaching and Learning; and additional Masters Degrees in Education and Library Science.
Dr. Collins served on the MassCUE Board as PD Chair from 2015-2019. She has published her writing in various journals including “EdWeek,” “Library Media Connection,” “NEA Today,” and “Knowledge Quest.” She is a 2012 Reynolds High School Journalism Institute Fellow and served as a project consultant for the E-Book, “Searchlights and Sunglasses: Journalism in the Digital Age.” She is currently serving as a News Literacy Project Ambassador. She received a “Teachers for Global Classrooms” fellowship from the U.S. State Dept. in 2014 and is the recipient of AASL’s Intellectual Freedom Award (2015). She was named an MSLA “Super Librarian” in 2015. She served on the MA State Science Ambassador Team, ISTE STEM PLN Leadership Team, and was elected in December, 2020, to the ISTE Board of Directors.
She is passionate about media literacy, STEM/STEAM and global education. In addition to having coordinated the Chinese Exchange Program at Sharon High School for many years, she has journeyed with students to India, Peru and Tanzania, Africa.
Topics Covered
- What it means to be news-literate — an overview of news literacy education
- Teaching digital verification skills to spark news literacy learning
- Evaluating the quality of standards-based journalism
- Exploring the misinformation landscape
- Understanding bias
- Using news literacy to drive civic engagement
DESE Standards
This workshop addresses the DESE Digital Literacy and Computer Science (DLCS) Curriculum Framework, Grades K-8 and 9-12 Standards:
- Digital Tools and Collaboration – Research, Collaboration and Communication
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Empowering Students Through News Literacy
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 4:00pm – 5:00pm
(Meeting Link to be sent to attendees 48 hours prior to event)
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