Developing Students’ Media Literacy Skills for PSHE and to Fulfil Statutory Obligations
September 12, 2024 | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm BST
London, UK
About this event:
Single Session
Our single professional learning sessions are designed to easily fit into your day. Typically one hour or less, these sessions explore timely and relevant topics including teaching strategies, current events, and more.
Instructor-Led
This professional learning event will be led by Facing History staff. When you register, you will receive instructions for how to attend the event.
Schools have a responsibility to help prepare students for the world beyond school and to help them develop healthy relationships with themselves, others and wider society. These obligations are captured in a range of statutory and non-statutory obligations, such as PSHE provision, Prevent, the Fundamental British Values, Online Safety and Keeping Children Safe in Education.
To help fulfil these obligations, it is vital that schools are supporting students to navigate the media and information landscape. Developing media literacy skills can help safeguard students from falling prey to dangerous ideas and trends promoted on social media; from believing and spreading misinformation and disinformation; from being radicalised online; and from engaging in behaviour that can harm their mental health, others and their future prospects.
Join us for an afternoon workshop to explore content from our unit, Developing Media Literacy for Well-being, Relationships and Democracy, that can help your students develop as critical and conscientious consumers, sharers and creators of information. The content that you learn can be shared across your entire school to help fulfil statutory responsibilities.
The unit contains the following lessons:
- Introducing Media Literacy
- Examining Bias and Representation in the Media
- Understanding the News
- Exploring the Impact of Social Media
- Confronting Misinformation, Disinformation and Mal-information
- Countering Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
- Learning to Navigate Generative AI
- Assessing How the Media and Information Landscape Impacts Democracy
- Staying Safe Online
- Reflecting on Media Literacy Skills and Their Importance
This workshop is appropriate for all secondary school teachers.
It may be particularly helpful for Senior Leadership Teachers who can shape whole school learning as it outlines ways that teachers and schools can fulfil statutory and non-statutory requirements related to Prevent, the Fundamental British Values, Online Safety and Keeping Children Safe in Education.
Those who teach English, Media Studies, PSHE and tutor time will also find the resources useful.
This event is for teachers in the UK.
This event will be hosted in-person at Venue TBC.
