Harnessing the media and information expertise of journalists and media experts, Lie Detectors trains professional journalists to transmit media literacy skills to teachers and schoolchildren.
One-day workshops equip journalists to use an award-winning and interactive pedagogical approach when training pre-teens and teenagers, teaching them age-appropriate and interactive examples and exercises to address disinformation, polarisation and news literacy. Journalists learn how to tackle complex themes with simple terminology and how to use an inquiry-led and authentic approach to engage with diverse student groups. Further training prepares journalists for training teachers. After training, journalists are deployed to diverse schools to deliver workshops.
Lie Detectors has trained more than 500 working journalists, creating daily positive contact between journalists and children as well as teachers. Classroom experience gives journalists key insights into young audiences and impacts newsroom discussions. Past and present newsroom partners include ARD tagesschau, AFP, EBU RTL, MDR, EBU, Kleine Zeitung, La Libre Belgique, Saarländischer Rundfunk, sh:z. See journalists’s comments on their classroom work here (hyperlink https://vimeo.com/694382454).