Nextgen Resources
For more information on the NextGen project in Idaho, please contact Jeannie Standal
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.
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.
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.
For more information on the NextGen project in Idaho, please contact Jeannie Standal