NewsLitCamp® Interest Form
NewsLitCamps, at no cost to school districts and educators, provide educators with new ideas, skills and tools to help their students navigate today’s complex information landscape, learn to sort fact from fiction and become reliably informed critical thinkers. These sessions, facilitated by journalists and NLP’s subject matter experts, aim to demystify and explain what distinguishes quality journalism amid a stream of misleading, unreliable and false information online.  For more information about what happens during a NewsLitCamp, visit https://newslit.org/educators/newslitcamp/

Please share your areas of interest and time preferences with us so that we can provide the best experience for you and your staff.  In an effort to determine the most effective and meaningful approach to Synchronous Virtual Professional Learning, please indicate what times and formats might work best for you.
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School District *
Name of the School in which you primarily work
Level of Students your Learning about NLP's topics would apply (check all that apply) *
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We are striving to provide an experience that is synchronous, so that you can interact with other attendees, facilitators, and journalists in real time.   Please answer the questions below to indicate how best this could work.
Time of Day I would prefer for Virtual Professional Learning *
My district/school  would support NLP Virtual professional learning *
How Many Hours of Virtual Professional Learning might be optimal for you in a single day? *
Preferred Day of the Week for Virtual PD *
Preferred Fall 2020 Month for Virtual PD *
Breakout Session Preferences
 Please indicate your level of interest in each of the areas below.
Fighting Fake: Exploring the misinformation landscape. Learn how to teach students to stop using the term “fake news” and to identify the many types of misleading, inaccurate and false information that they encounter every day. We use examples of misinformation to engage students in news literacy and civic learning, and we introduce digital verification skills and tools for debunking manipulated and false images. *
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Understanding Bias:  A nuanced approach to a vital news literacy topic. Bias is one of the most controversial and important subjects in news literacy. People frequently perceive and allege bias in news coverage -- but what does this really mean? What makes a piece of news biased and who decides? What role do our own biases play in our perceptions of it? In this session, we'll help you teach this vital but complex topic in ways that empower students to meaningfully evaluate the fairness and impartiality of news coverage. *
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What does it mean to be News Literate: skills students must learn to be reliably informed. In this session, educators will learn  key news literacy skills that students must learn to be reliably informed. These include identifying misinformation, applying fact-checking and digital verification skills, recognizing standards of quality journalism and developing a healthy media diet that comprises a variety of sources. *
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Is it Legit? Using digital verification to spark news literacy learning. Dive deep into the tools and skills needed to verify the authenticity of information and learn to create engaging fact-checking investigations that inspire students to investigate viral content online. Topics include using reverse image searches to determine authenticity; researching domain registration to discover a website’s owner; using archivers to explore deleted or changed content; developing keen observation skills to detect false context; and using Google Street View to confirm locations. Access to NLP resources and classroom-ready examples is included. *
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Evaluating the quality of standards-based journalism: This session introduces and explores the standards and ideals of quality journalism. Learn why students need to have an understanding of journalistic concepts such as verification, fairness, accountability and independence — and how to build on that understanding in ways that empower students to identify credible news reporting and respond to coverage that is lacking in some way. *
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How News Judgements are Made: What gets covered and why. Who decides what runs on the front page? What factors come into play to decide what is featured most prominently? This session will examine what gets covered, what gets featured, and why and how those decisions are made. *
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