News Literacy and Service Learning Workshop
On Saturday, September 9, WVXU presented a Democracy and Me Teacher Workshop by David Clark, Curriculum and Technology Specialist at Butler County ESC. Subjects covered […]
Articles by Kahvah Whittaker
Facebook and the News – Facebook’s Campbell Brown Talks with Joshua Johnson, Host of NPR’s 1A
Earlier this summer, NPR’s 1A was at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Host Joshua Johnson had the opportunity to speak with journalist Campbell Brown, head […]
Teaching Media Literacy
Earlier this year, NPR reported on a Stanford study that showed students have trouble determining fake from real news. While students are continually exposed to […]
Factitious: A Game to Test Your Fake News Judgment
Journalist Maggie Farley knew that fake news has existed for a long time as people manipulated information for their own benefit. In a report by […]
Civics Outreach from the Federal Bar Association
The Federal Bar Association created a national civics outreach program to help educate students about our court systems. With the resources provided judges and attorneys […]
WVXU’s Howard Wilkinson and the Chatterbox Staff
WVXU’s Howard Wilkinson has spent the 2016-2017 school year advising the staff of Walnut Hills High School’s student newspaper, The Chatterbox. While he has passed […]
News Literacy: Have you changed your approach?; Student Journalists in the News; Available Resources
It has always been important to teach students how to distinguish fact from fiction, or fact from opinion. But with so many sources of news […]
World War I Centennial Education Resources
The centennial of the U.S. involvement in World War I, “War To End All Wars,” is approaching on April 6. The United States World War […]
Explore the Executive Branch for President’s Day
Our Founding Fathers formed the United States’ government so that no one person would have too much control. The Constitution set up three branches of […]
A finder’s guide for facts from Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep
According to NPR’s Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, “Facts have always been hard to separate from falsehoods, and political partisans have always made it harder.” […]