Library Media & News Literacy Resources

Library Media & News Literacy Specialist

NUES offers resources for you and your library teams.

Media and news literacy work includes the following:

·      Providing guidance on sensitive materials policy (per USBE guidelines)

·      Supporting educators earning Library/Media and Secondary ELA endorsements

·      Facilitating the News Literacy Media Fellows program 2026-2028: identifying lead teachers to be part of this effort to support and integrate news literacy media in the region’s secondary schools

·      Offering News Literacy Media assistance (helping educators teach students skills to distinguish credible sources vs misinformation)

·      Helping with curriculum alignment of secondary ELA resources and research skills, particularly in rural districts

·      Acting as Family Liaison for K-12 Literacy, helping guardians support their students’ literacy development at home

Helpful Resources

An ever-evolving collection of resources designed to help you teach your students about media literacy

• Here is a helpful article about building critical literacy in the current AI landscape (Edutopia, “5 Ways to Build Critical Literacy in the Age of AI” by Catherine Gibbons)
• Here is a “News Matters” unit plan from NLP (grades 3-6)
• Rumorguard is a fact-checking site from NLP (best for “what are people posting that’s not true?”)
• Here’s a quiz about Conspiratorial Thinking that walks students through the most common fallacies leading to conspiracy theories.  
• Two Truths and AI, a YouTube series of 2-3 minute videos, is a great bell-ringer for learning/spotting AI video “tells”