Behind the Scenes at Thinkalong: Helping Students Build Media Literacy [23:35]

If you work with middle grade and high school students and are looking for strategies and resources to help them build their media literacy skills, Thinkalong is a platform worth exploring. Designed by experts at Connecticut Public, Thinkalong helps educators address the spread of misinformation and our eroding trust in journalism in order to restore civic engagement and confidence in shared facts. The curated materials and compelling questions presented in their topics are highly engaging and ignite critical thinking and active class dialogue. I hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes conversation with Katie Eber and Tricia George, two members of the Thinkalong design team, in which they describe how they choose and shape topics that inspire student discussion and research, as well as why it's so important to include students themselves in the topic selection process.