In this free, hands-on course you will

  • Explore strategies to recognize reliable and unreliable sources no matter how they were created
  • Practice lateral reading and other fact-checking methods centered on a topic relevant to you and your curriculum or content area




Who Should Take This Course

K-12 educators in all subject areas who want to develop skills and confidence with media making and media literacy.

Course Features

Learn online at your own pace with step-by-step videos and hands-on activities. Join live events with instructors and peers. It’s completely free!

Certificate of Completion

Earn a Certificate of Completion for 3 hours of professional development. Then apply for graduate units from one of our university partners.


Learning Objectives

Explore how generative AI intersects with misinformation and how to respond as an educator, including:

  • Understanding how AI is used to create different types of mis- and disinformation
  • Considering whether or not AI should be used to find the most reliable sources
  • Practicing current best practices to assess the accuracy and credibility of online sources that may have been made using AI

Already completed our “Evaluating Online Sources” course? 

This course supplements “Evaluating Online Sources,” going deeper into GenAI created media. The section on “lateral reading” and “reverse image search” will be familiar to you, but the other content will be new.

Your Instructors

We support educators in integrating video storytelling, audio podcasts and other media literacy skills into their teaching practice.

Charlotte Cheng


Charlotte Cheng is the STEM Education Program Manager at KQED. Her expertise is creating effective and engaging content for kids at the intersection of education, media, and technology. Charlotte has also taught in a variety of K-12 classroom settings and one of her workshops was featured on ABC News.



Rachel Roberson

Rachel is KQED’s program manager for humanities professional learning. Previously, she was an English and social studies classroom teacher and teacher leader in San Francisco, Oakland, Austin and internationally.  Before becoming a teacher, she was a newspaper reporter in the Bay Area.

Rik Panganiban

Rik Panganiban is the Manager of Online Learning at the San Francisco-based public media station KQED. He supports educators’ professional growth through KQED Teach, an online learning platform with more than 10K registered users. Previously, Rik served as the Senior Manager of Digital Learning at the California Academy of Sciences.



About KQED

KQED is a nonprofit, public media station and NPR and PBS member station based in San Francisco that offers award-winning education resources and services free to educators nationwide. KQED Teach is a collection of professional development courses that empower educators to teach media literacy, make media for the classroom and lead media-making projects with students in K-12.

All course content unless otherwise noted is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license excludes all user generated content unless explicitly labeled for reuse by the user. Permission to reuse user generated content should be directed to the individual creator.

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