Media Literacy and Civic Agency
Define literacy as a set of practices for inquiry, participation, creation, and correction—not a test of political conformity.
/international/information-environments/media-literacy-and-civic-agencyLEARNING PATH // EDUCATORS, LIBRARIES, PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, COMMUNITIES, AND ADULT LEARNERS
Pair individual inquiry skills with institutional accountability and accessible community practice; apply the WIP.19 claim-level reverification statuses before treating a volatile assertion as current.
Estimated total: 102 minutes
Define literacy as a set of practices for inquiry, participation, creation, and correction—not a test of political conformity.
/international/information-environments/media-literacy-and-civic-agencyTeach readers to leave the page, investigate the publisher and claim, trace primary evidence, and compare independent accounts.
/international/information-environments/lateral-reading-source-checking-and-uncertaintyCompare interventions by target, evidence, duration, transfer, accessibility, autonomy, and possible stigma or distrust.
/international/information-environments/prebunking-warnings-labels-and-backfire-riskExplore institutions that combine local trust, source access, translation, public service, and correction.
/international/information-environments/community-fact-checking-libraries-and-public-mediaDesign learning with communities rather than treating language, disability, age, or limited connectivity as deficits.
/international/information-environments/multilingual-accessible-and-non-paternalistic-educationMove beyond messaging tactics to acknowledgement, evidence release, correction, remedy, leadership responsibility, and measurable reform.
/international/information-environments/trust-repair-after-institutional-failure