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Be MediaWise

A Misinformation Resilience Lunch and Learn
2025-05-05 12:00:00 2025-05-05 12:30:00 America/New_York Be MediaWise Brush up on your digital and media literacy skills to protect yourself with the Be MediaWise Misinformation Resilience Toolkit. Virtual - Virtual

Monday, May 05
12:00pm - 12:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-05-05 12:00:00 2025-05-05 12:30:00 America/New_York Be MediaWise Brush up on your digital and media literacy skills to protect yourself with the Be MediaWise Misinformation Resilience Toolkit. Virtual - Virtual

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Brush up on your digital and media literacy skills to protect yourself with the Be MediaWise Misinformation Resilience Toolkit.

Over the course of eight weeks, these 30-minute Lunch and Learns will cover relevant information and tools you can incorporate into your time online and information consumption. 

  • May 5 - How do you stay safe online?
  • May 12 - How do you sort fact from opinion? What is bias?
  • May 19 - What makes a resource reputable?
  • June 2 - What is journalism? Who is a journalist?
  • June 9 - Where can you find accurate information?
  • June 16 - How does information spread?
  • June 30 - How do you know it's not AI?
  • July 7 - How do you share responsibly with family and friends? 

 The content of the Lunch and Learns comes from Be MediaWise: A Misinformation Resilience Toolkit, the product of a partnership between MediaWise at the nonprofit Poynter Institute, and the American Library Association.

Contact mzimmerman@alexlibraryva.org for more information. 

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Technology |

TAGS: | Resiliency | Misinformation | Media Literacy | Lunch & Learn | Digital Literacy |

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