Nextgen Resources
New resources, tools, and news about media and information literacy are constantly published and made available. Visit this page regularly to find updated links to useful resources for your students and teachers.
More to Support Your Work
News Literacy Project: a nonpartisan education nonprofit building a national movement to advance the practice of news literacy throughout American society, creating better informed, more engaged and more empowered individuals – and ultimately a stronger democracy. – from the News Literacy Project mission statement.
Common Sense Education: provides professional development, along with lesson plans with tips and resources for teaching Digital Citizenship, Digital Well-Being, and AI Literacy. Common Sense Education is a separate, but related, set of tools from the same organization that produces Common Sense Media.
Information Literacy Resources for Library and Museum Professionals: use the resources on this site to plan information literacy programs and help community members build these critical skills.
- Back to School Toolkit from the News Literacy Project
- News Literacy Quizzes from the News Literacy Project
- Wonder Media: Ask the Questions! is the digital version of an interactive exhibition at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum and includes toolkits full of ready-to-use activities, games and information to help students and teachers navigate the media literacy and news literacy landscapes. This project was funded in part by IMLS.
Above the Noise from PBS Learning Media: A new YouTube series that empowers teens to cut through the hype and find out what’s really going on.
Teachers for an Informed Public: an organization of teachers and librarians dedicated to bringing digital media literacy skills to their students and communities to help them tell fact from fiction on line.
AllSides.com: Provides news stories from the right, left, and center of the political spectrum. It is a helpful way to look at many different stories and topics from mulitiple points of view.
FactCheck.org: A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. Politics. (From the Mission Statement at FactCheck.org.)
TinEye: A reverse image search tool meant to help identify altered images.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Early Learning LITT Chat
June 16, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm MDT
LITT: Library Lifelines – Genealogy
June 18, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MDT
LITT: Collection Development – Library of Things
June 23, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm MDT
LiLI-D: The New History Reference Source
July 14, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MDT
LITT: Library Lifelines – Finding Grants and Funding
July 16, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MDT
LITT: Academic Libraries
July 27, 10:00 am - 11:00 am MDT
For more information on the NextGen project in Idaho, please contact Jeannie Standal