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A practical guide for journalists venturing into education.

What You'll Gain From This Course

• Master strategic use of AI to enhance your workshop preparation and delivery

• Save time while creating more engaging educational experiences

• Build confidence in transforming your expertise into effective learning sessions

• Learn proven approaches for different audiences and settings

• Develop your own system for AI-assisted workshop creation

Prerequisites

• Basic familiarity with AI tools like ChatGPT or Gemini

• No teaching experience required

• No advanced AI knowledge needed

What You'll Learn

• Why journalists should also be teachers.
• How to effectively share your journalistic expertise with diverse audiences.
• How to design a memorable workshop that leaves a lasting impression.
• The role of "Aha moments," interactivity, and practical demonstrations.
• How to ensure your audience retains key takeaways and stays motivated.

Course Structure:

• ENGAGE (10 minutes): Connecting with participants and emphasizing authenticity.

• KNOW (20 minutes): Understanding the fundamentals of working with different target groups.

• UNDERSTAND (20 minutes): Exploring practical examples and verification activities.

• APPLY (10 minutes): Crafting your own workshop plan.

The course is led by Zoltán Sipos, the editor-in-chief of Átlátszó Erdély, an investigative outlet covering the 1,2 million Hungarian minority community living in Romania. This lesson consists of a short explanation video, step-by-step instructions on how to report and how to build trust, and interactive exercises to test your newly acquired skills. 

In this 30-minute mini-course, you will learn how journalists can become news literacy educators in a step-by-step guide.

In this 30-minute mini-course, you will learn how journalists can become news literacy educators in a step-by-step guide. In this 30-minute mini-course, you will learn how journalists can become news literacy educators in a step-by-step guide.

A fact-checking guide condensed into a 30-minutes interactive exercise

In this 30-minute mini-course, you will be introduced to a fact-checking process by expert Fergus Bell. This lesson consists of a short explanation video, a step-by-step guide on how to structure a fact-checking process, and an interactive exercise to test your fact-checking skills and knowledge. 

In this 45-minute course you will learn about:

• The basic principles on which Large Language Models (LLM) such as ChatGPT operate 

• Affordances and limitations of using LLMs for various tasks

• AI-prompting hacks to provide the best ChatGPT outcomes

• Ways how to use AI to save time in different steps of the factchecking process. 

There are eight mini-lessons, some with quizzes or other exercises to help you check what you have learned. There is also an extra lesson in which you can familiarize yourself with how to access and navigate ChatGPT, if needed.