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News in the Classroom

News in the Classroom is an educational project for pupils from the third grade of primary education onwards, focusing on news and information literacy. It encourages children and young people to deal with news and current affairs critically and consciously, but also actively and creatively.

For pupils and teachers in third-grade primary education, secondary education, teacher training, primary education centres, social promotion education, adult education and hospital schools. 

Questions about News in the Classroom? Ask Sanne Hermans or Zara Mommerency.

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Why work on news, factchecking and opinion skills

Children and young people deal with news and information differently at each age. That is why we developed the 'News in the classroom growth line', a vision of how to work on news and information, adapted to the development of each age group. All News in the Classroom material follows this learning path.

Mediawijs developed 3 teaching packages that follow this growth line and are made to teach young people from every grade of secondary education how to deal with news, online (dis)information and forming opinions. Discover Newsmakers (12-14 years), Factcheckers (14-16 years) and Opinionmakers (16-18 years)!

Teaching materials

  • Newsmakers Teaching materials

    Newsmakers

    News seems to be everywhere. But what is news? When is something newsworthy? What exactly does a journalist do? And how is news made? With the Newsmakers teaching package, you and your pupils discover the answer to all these questions and you can turn your pupils into real journalists themselves.

  • Factcheckers Teaching materials

    Factcheckers

    What is disinformation? How do you recognise it? What are reliable sources? How do social media algorithms work? How do you learn to fact-check posts and images? With the Factcheckers teaching package, you and your pupils will discover the answers to all these questions and can turn your pupils into real fact checkers.

  • Opinionmakers Teaching materials

    Opinionmakers

    A lot of information comes at us. How do you process it in a critical way? How do you build a well-founded opinion? How do you deal with differences of opinion and what if they get out of hand? And how can you make your voice heard in society? With the Opinionmakers teaching package, you and your pupils will discover the answers.