I Saw It on Instagram So It Must Be True!: Helping Students Navigate Global Information Online

This webinar will be hosted in partnership with Digital Inquiry Group and CFR Education from the Council on Foreign Relations as a part of the 2025 Share My Lesson Virtual Conference. 

Increasingly, students are bringing "facts" from social media into school, and teachers are left to navigate these misleading and false narratives in the classroom. In our globalized world, it is critical for students to have the digital literacy skills to make sense of online information about international issues. 

So how, as educators, can you support your students in differentiating fact from fiction as they confront a flood of digital information about the world? 

In this virtual session, the Digital Inquiry Group and CFR Education from the Council on Foreign Relations will unpack how to build global digital literacy skills to prepare students to evaluate claims about international issues. 

In this webinar, participants will learn 

• strategies to evaluate where information comes from and whether it is reliable;
• tools to empower our students with the knowledge, skills and perspective required to compete in a global workforce; and
• free, non-partisan global affairs resources that provide foundation knowledge about current events.

This session is aimed at teachers of all subjects in middle school, high school, and higher education and can be helpful to any educator or guardian navigating online information about global issues. 

Professional Credit
Share My Lesson webinars are available for one-hour of PD credit. A certificate of completion will be available for download at the end of your session that you can submit for your school's or district's approval. Explore all Share My Lesson 2025 Virtual Conference sessions here. 

Speakers
Charles Hopkins, Director, Teaching & Learning, Council on Foreign Relations
Joel Breakstone, Executive Director, Digital Inquiry Group