Curricula

Featured Resource: Digital Resource Center 

The Digital Resource Center, developed and curated by the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University, is a clearinghouse containing a collection of lesson plans, curriculum, lectures, exercises, and materials for K-12 educators, students, and college instructors. 




Six week online course (~15 hours), available in English, Spanish, and Chinese, helps learners better identify reliable information in news reports. The course discusses the key elements of journalism from the viewpoint of the news audience. Offered by the University of Hong Kong and the State University of New York. Earn a certificate upon completion. 


Project Censored provides media literacy curriculums to help people evaluate for themselves the quality or significance of the news they receive. Project Censored’s work highlights the important links among a free press, media literacy, and democratic self-government.

Delivered during the school year, The Sift is a free weekly newsletter for educators that offers a rundown of the latest topics in news literacy — including trends and issues in misinformation, social media, artificial intelligence, journalism and press freedom. It provides discussion prompts, teaching ideas, classroom guides and a monthly video series that features professional journalists.