Exploring the Misinformation Landscape

▶ Available On-Demand through January 31, 2026

In a world of viral posts and fast-moving headlines, it’s never been more important to help students separate fact from fiction.

Teach students to develop their misinformation “spidey senses” to spot viral falsehoods on social media—and to use verification skills to debunk them.

This session uses a “prebunking” approach to teaching about misinformation: helping students recognize common traits and tactics of false and misleading claims. Explore five primary types of viral misinformation along with five factors students can use to evaluate posts they’re skeptical about. We also will practice key verification skills—like reverse image searching—and close by reflecting on how these concepts and skills can be applied in the classroom to foster careful, critical thinking, and a sense of responsibility for what students post and amplify online. 

Audience

This webinar is for lower, middle & upper school faculty & administrators.

Tracee Stanford News Literacy Project

Tracee Stanford is senior manager of professional learning at News Literacy Project (NLP). Before joining NLP, she served as a program manager at Free Spirit Media, a nonprofit youth media organization, where she led teams of media educators focused on teaching essential journalism and storytelling skills to youth in underserved Chicago communities. Stanford also worked in broadcast news as a statehouse reporter covering government and politics and was a reporter and producer for Alabama Public Television. As a high school journalism teacher, she made contributions to curriculum design, instructional methods, and strategic partnerships. She earned her undergraduate degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois, Springfield.

Tracee Stanford

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Recording

This webinar will be available through: January 31, 2026.

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