
Media Literacy: Teaching Students to Verify What They See
Media literacy is probably already in your curriculum. What changed is the material: since August 2026, EU law asks providers of generative systems to mark what they generate, with gaps a student needs to know.
About this course
You come out of this week with a verification routine your students can actually run, and a written rule for what happens when it fails. Monday — you sort a set of real and generated items before any training, and find out how good you actually are. Tuesday — the procedure: provenance, lateral reading, tracing…
Methodology
The week opens with a cold sort of real and generated material, done before any input. The results are not a warm-up exercise; they decide which parts of the procedure get the most time.
Every check taught during the week works whether or not anything looks wrong, because the week assumes that looking will stop being enough.
The course states which of UNESCO’s fourteen media and information literacy modules it works in and which it does not, so participants can say afterwards exactly what was covered.
What you'll take home
Run a verification procedure — provenance, lateral reading, tracing back — on material that cannot be judged by appearance, and teach students to run it themselves.
State what EU law requires generated content to carry since 2 August 2026, and name the two situations in which that marking will not be there: material generated before the rule applied, and AI used only to assist standard editing.
Explain to a class, and to a parent, why a detector’s score is evidence rather than proof.
Build a verification routine a named class can complete in ten minutes, with a plan for checking that a student can run it, tested on a colleague.
Draft a rule for an item nobody can settle: who it goes to, what the student is told meanwhile, and what is recorded — what you can apply in your own class now, and what you take to your school leadership.
Other dates for this course
- 21–25 Dec 2026 Mersin Planned
- 11–15 Jan 2027 Rome Planned
- 8–12 Mar 2027 Budapest Planned
- 15–19 Mar 2027 İzmir Planned
- 26–30 Apr 2027 Bremen Planned
- 10–14 May 2027 Antalya Confirmed
- 31 May – 4 Jun 2027 İstanbul Confirmed
- 21–25 Jun 2027 Mersin Confirmed
- 23–27 Aug 2027 Antalya Planned
- 11–15 Oct 2027 İzmir Planned
- 22–26 Nov 2027 Rome Planned
- 6–10 Dec 2027 Antalya Planned
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