Parent & educator Media literacy
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Explore 11 trusted parent & educator media literacy resources selected for curious kids, with clear ages, access details, and parent context.
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Teaching Kids News
Free, readable current-events articles written by professional journalists for children, families, and classrooms.
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Infodemic
A free cooperative classroom game that helps students practice reading news feeds, checking sources, and discussing how information spreads online.
Media Literacy Activities for Kids & Families
The American Academy of Pediatrics offers family activities for building critical thinking about apps, games, advertising, privacy, online content, and healthy media habits.
Trace Quest
A free browser detective game where children trace online information, evaluate sources, and practice spotting misinformation through a timed mystery.
Truth Runners
A free fact-checking game with elementary, middle-school, and high-school paths that trains source verification and misinformation detection under pressure.
Literacy for Kids
Literacy for Kids is a free, open-source collection of practical lessons for ages 8–12 covering computer, money, media, civic, legal, health, environmental, emotional, and social literacy through short activities and shared toolkits.
Provenance Academy Free Games
A free collection of browser-based digital-safety games for K–12 students, including media literacy, fact-checking, vocabulary, and focus activities with no login or student data collection.
Newshounds by Squiz Kids
A classroom media-literacy resource teaching children how to spot misinformation online using the “Stop. Think. Check.” approach.
Under Pressure
A serious game and peer-education method that helps young people recognize disinformation, online manipulation, and polarisation through guided classroom discussion.
MediaSmarts Educational Games
MediaSmarts educational games help children and teens practise digital and media literacy through interactive activities about privacy, advertising, online safety, and critical thinking.
Mind Your Media
EAVI’s media-literacy game collection uses interactive activities about online behaviour, misinformation, artificial intelligence, scams, and digital media.
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