Upcoming Schedule
View our conference calendar for more KQED education event opportunities.
Media Literacy and Elections: Informed Civic Participation
September 8, 4-5:30pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade 4-12 educators (Free)
We live in a time when it can be difficult to identify reliable news sources. Misinformation and disinformation clouds our information landscape, especially around a national election. This interactive session, with our partners at KQED, prepares educators and students to take stock of their media choices, explore media bias, explore tools for differentiating fact from opinion, and think about what healthy news habits they want to adopt. Educators will walk away with classroom ready resources, activities and tools designed to help students develop media literacy and civic skills, stay informed, and share their voices around issues that matter to them.
This workshop us part of Facing History & Ourselves learning series, Democracy in Action: Teaching about Voting, Elections & Civic Participation. This series explores what makes democracy work, the importance of voting and elections, and the pivotal role of young people’s civic participation. Check out the full series!
September 15, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade 6-12 educators (Free)
In an AI landscape dominated by either products or panic, KQED offers something different. Explore Finding First Person: Telling My Story in the Age of AI, our new curriculum designed to build something we call narrative agency. Co-created by KQED and our Student AI Advisory Team, Finding First Person combines foundational exploration of AI tools with a personal narrative media project. Join us to unpack the concept of narrative agency and how it meets the AI moment by keeping youth voice front and center.
From Learners to Creators: Exploring The American Revolution Through Media-Making
September 29, 4-6pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade 6-12 educators (Free)
Discover how your students can connect the foundational principles of the American Revolution to their lives today by amplifying their knowledge through media-making. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the extensive, curriculum-aligned, multimedia resources from The American Revolution Classroom Collection on PBS LearningMedia and hear from a teacher whose students have created a media project for The American Revolution Youth Media Challenge. Then participants will get hands-on, starting a model media project to learn how to create media in a classroom setting and will leave with a pathway to empower and share student voice beyond the classroom. No special equipment or studio required!
"Well-designed, responsive to teachers, enthusiastic and knowledgeable instructors, good pacing, skillful use of the technology--loved it!"
- Middle school educator
Slow the Scroll: Boost Critical Thinking with Media Analysis
October 13, 4-5pm PDT
Online workshop; for grade 4-12 educators (Free)
Media messages are designed to grab our attention and keep our eyeballs glued to the screen. With the midterms fast approaching and AI-generated media on the rise, this workshop for educators in grades 4-12 will help students become critical viewers rather than passive consumers by analyzing the purpose, audience and built-in biases of an array of media messages, from historic political ads to influencers on Instagram. You’ll leave with ideas, strategies and classroom-ready resources to start analyzing media messages, regardless of how they are generated.
Past Events
Catch up on the workshops you missed with these recordings.
Our online workshops are interactive and designed to be attended live. The recordings may not reflect the same level of interactivity and engagement. We encourage you to attend our workshops in community with other educators in real time.
Get a close look at our new Podcasting Democracy units for middle school U.S. history and high school government. Hear from teachers who have taught the curriculum, listen to student-created examples, unpack media implementation best practices, and start making your own model civic commentary podcast.
Recorded on August 25, 2026
Learn (and practice!) the strategies professional fact-checkers and journalists use to find reliable sources, whether the information is produced by humans or AI. You’ll leave with ready-to-use resources to help students find reliable sources no matter where they click.
Recorded on August 4, 2026
Join 826 National and KQED for an interactive, professional development workshop that puts student voice front and center. Explore how personal narratives and audio storytelling not only create essential space for students to reflect on their values and identity—they fuel community-building, skill development, and confidence in their voice.
Recorded on July 28, 2026
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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.