Join the Pulitzer Center Education team to learn more about the many types of misinformation and approaches to media literacy. Participants will reflect on what global media literacy looks like in the classroom by exploring thinking routines and resources that encourage students to make local-global connections and identify power structures and dominant narratives that shape media. This workshop will feature an alumnus of the Pulitzer Center’s Teacher Fellowship program, who will share their experience teaching an original project-based unit that cultivates global media literacy, and their tips for other educators doing this work.
This event is part of IRIS NRC’s International Book Club series. The first 25 teachers to register will receive a free copy of the book ‘What the Fact?’ by Seema Yasmin!
About the Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center has a bold vision: to be the venue for the world’s most innovative and consequential reporting, with journalism as the key element for mobilizing society through audience engagement strategies.
Founded in 2006, the Center is an essential source of support for enterprise reporting in the United States and across the globe. The thousands of journalists and educators who are part of our networks span more than 80 countries. Our work reaches tens of millions of people each year through our news-media partners and an audience-centered strategy of global and regional engagement.
We believe that people and communities who actively engage with systemic challenges will find solutions together. By supporting journalists as they conduct in-depth investigations, produce compelling stories, and engage diverse audiences, we create a ripple effect of world-changing impact. The result? Policy reforms, public awareness, and community empowerment.
The Pulitzer Center Teacher Fellowship is a paid, virtual program that connects a small cohort of educators with other passionate Fellows, award-winning journalists, and the Pulitzer Center education team. Fellows develop short units (three–ten class periods) that engage their students in making local connections to global news, practicing media literacy skills, and building empathy. Fellows then implement their short units, evaluate student outcomes, and share their projects publicly through the Pulitzer Center’s online lesson library and virtual professional development programs. Click here to learn more.
What theFact? Finding the Truth in All the Noise, by Seema Yasmin
Dr. Seema Yasmin brings her experiences as a journalist, medical doctor, poet, and professor to the page in this vivid and enlightening discussion about facts, truth, and the business of information sharing. From the first page, Dr. Yasmin invites readers to challenge their thoughts about being a freethinker and to examine how content and ideas are manipulated by human behavior and big business. Using memorable examples from history, visual sidebars, and highlighted vocabulary, the author carefully walks through concepts such as contagious information, bias and beliefs, the evolution of journalism, the role of social media, and how to debunk and disagree. For example, an explanation of the inverted pyramid of news reporting (the lede, the body, and the tail) emphasizes how the instability of telegraph wire led to the shortening of news content in order to emphasize the most critical piece first. With a story’s chronology and facts less important than the headline, it’s easy to see the evolution of today’s hashtags and character counts. The positive tone of the text encourages readers to operate with a curious and critical mind and concludes with suggestions for how to find conversational middle-ground with others. ©2022 Cooperative Children’s Book Center