Newswise: Promoting Civic Engagement through News Literacy
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Successfully engaging schools with a news literacy project
By Sorcha Hughes, NewsWise Project Coordinator, The Guardian Foundation Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, schools and teachers have faced challenge after challenge, with frequent disruptions to daily school life. From repeated and short-notice closures during the pandemic to staffing shortages to some teachers taking strike action, navigating the educational landscape…
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Why news literacy matters
By John Dillon, Director of Communications and Membership, PSHE Association Newswise was inspired by a growing realisation that news literacy must start from a young age. The landscape has become even more complex and challenging to navigate in the few short years since its inception. This trend will continue due to increasingly sophisticated AI and…
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Exploration, confirmation, transformation: the value of evaluating news literacy
By the National Literacy Trust The rise of digital technology has brought unprecedented change in how media and news are created and experienced. Alongside this has been an increasing recognition of the need to support media and news literacy education across all age groups, with children and young people’s wellbeing and trust in the media…
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Factivism: Exploring the vital link between news literacy and youth civic engagement
By Prof Tom Harrison, Deputy-Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, School of Education, University of Birmingham It is a commonly heard lament that democratic discourse is in decline. This concern is not just expressed in the UK but also in many countries around the world. Evidence of this growing political division and animosity includes…
Newswise: Promoting Civic Engagement through News Literacy 