Monroe 1&2 Media Literacy: AI and Media Literacy for Librarians

The Sift is a free weekly newsletter for educators delivered during the school year that offers a rundown of the latest topics in news literacy — including trends and issues in misinformation, social media, artificial intelligence, journalism and press freedom. It provides discussion prompts, teaching ideas, classroom guides and a monthly video series that features professional journalists. Highly recommended!

Includes educator guides with lesson/activity ideas for elementary and secondary.

An exploration of media literacy and deepfake technology from MIT.

A series of suggested questions to ask about AI tools to encourage critical thinking.

Lesson plan from Facing History.

Lesson plan from Facing History.

Resources from News Literacy Project

Series of 20 videos about AI. A few years old now, but lots of great background info.

National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE)

Edweek Article

Text to image generator. Free for a certain number of images. Adobe account required.

The text-to-image generator from the makers of Chat GPT. Free up to a certain number of images.

Create a sketch, tell it what you want, and AI will turn it into an image.

Web-based game to practice identifying AI-generated faces.

Website that generates faces with AI. Could be used to practice identifying AI-created images.

Account required. Free and paid versions available.

Microsoft account required (must not have safe search turned on, so your school account will probably not work). Free. Go to search and then chat.

Text to image generator. Free with ads.

The AI powered text-to-image tool is built in.