Explore games, quizzes, and other resources from our partners and other organizations dedicated to promoting news literacy and combatting misinformation.
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Let's Get a Baseline
Just like at the doctor’s office, we want to begin with a baseline. To find out how much you know right now about News Literacy, take the quiz.
How News Literate Are You?
There are twelve questions on this quiz. How many do you expect to get correct?
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Basic training
You can learn to recognize news from other types of information. To get started, you can take a free online course from Checkology by the News Literacy Project or you can download the free Informable app.
Become a News Detective
Take the “What is News” course from Checkology after completing your free registration.
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Make a Game of Recognizing News
Download the free Informable app to hone your News Literacy skills and learn to recognize trustworthy news from other types of information.
Download the app Standards of Quality Journalism
Learn about the standards of quality journalism and more about the measures that journalists take to deliver information to the public.
Practice quality journalism
Check out the “Practicing Quality Journalism” Checkology course from the News Literacy Project.
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Support for educators
Explore the classroom resources and further reading links shared on this News Literacy Week page from the News Literacy Project.
Journalism standards in the classroom Recognizing Accurate and Reliable News
Use tools from the News Literacy Project, SmartNews, and RumorGuard to learn how to choose trustworthy sources of news.
Is it legit?
The News Literacy Project created a quiz in partnership with SmartNews to help you learn to recognize features and foibles that affect credibility and understand why.
Review the steps first and then take the quiz.
Review the steps
5 Factors
Take a closer look at the five factors to consider when evaluating a news story for credibility.
Visit RumorGuard Recognizing Misinformation
Misinformation is false or inaccurate information, especially when it's deliberately intended to deceive or trick you. The News Literacy Project offers excellent content about recognizing and dealing with misinformation. Clemson University's Spot the Troll quiz helps you spot fake social media accounts.
Combat misinformation
Take the “Misinformation” course from Checkology after completing your free registration.
Take the course
Spot the Troll
This quiz helps you learn to recognize fake social media accounts. For more about online trolling, listen to News Over Noise, Episode 106: Trolling the News in an Attention Economy and check out Joan Donovan's lecture Doing it for the Content.
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Spread awareness
Encourage others to pause and take care before they share with graphics, media, and pledges from the UN Verified initiative to pause misinformation. #takecarebeforeyoushare
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