Mission:Information is an open-source and interactive curriculum that helps teens develop media and web literacy skills, and have some fun while doing so. This curriculum was created as a way to help teens deal with fake news and misinformation that they might encounter online. A main goal of this curriculum is to empower learners to become strong consumers, producers, and distributors of news and media.
This curriculum was initially developed by Nucleus Learning Network, Open Austin, and The Austin Monitor in partnership with Mozilla. Currently, this project is run by Sarah Morris from Nucleus Learning Network. This project follows Mozilla's Community Participation Guidelines. Visit the link to learn more and check out the project's Contributing guidelines for futher information.
See the following documents for detailed information on how to get involved with the project, what types of skills you need to get involved, resources to learn more, and next steps with the project.
Sarah Morris from Nucleus Learning Network is currently a Mozilla Open Leaders Fellow and is working on a new computer science lesson to supplement the original three Mission:Information Lessons. This new lesson will help learners gain a new perspective on misinformation and fake news by focusing on algorithms, and will help learners continue to strengthen their media and web literacy skills.
Here are some ways that you can get involved!
During the sprint I am looking for more people to test, provide feedback, share ideas, remix and expand, and, most importantly, build community around this topic. See the Issues page for ways to get started and disucssion topics. See this Google Doc where we can brainstorm and share ideas around a new lesson on algorithms.
If you make a contribution during the sprint (thank you!) you'll receive a virtual high-five and a shoutout in an acknowledgement page (unless you prefer not to be included).
As a current solo project owner I'll be available as much as possible during the Sprint, but there might be some lag times in responses! I'm located in the US in the Central Time Zone and will be available during buisness hours (8am-5pm) to answer questions.
This open-source curriculum project is hopefully the start of something bigger. The three existing lessons serve as a foundation to help teens develop media and web literacy skills, but there is a lot of room to grow. Here are some ways to get involved.
Glad you asked! Here are some plans and next steps to continue to grow the Mission:Information project in 2018 and beyond. If any of these avenues of work sound interesting, please get in touch!