Media & Information Literacy Workshops

Overview

The core of everything IMDIL does. Our media and information literacy (MIL) workshops are two-day, intensely practical sessions designed for the people information touches most: teachers, students, journalists, and community and religious leaders.

We teach participants to slow down before they share — to spot manipulated images, question suspicious sources, understand how algorithms shape what they see, and check claims against reliable evidence. Sessions are participatory, low-tech by design, and delivered in English and Hausa, with materials that work offline.

Every workshop ends with a training-of-trainers component: graduates leave with a lesson plan and the confidence to teach MIL in their own classroom, newsroom or community.

What participants gain

• The ability to recognise common misinformation patterns — clickbait, doctored images, out-of-context quotes and coordinated rumours.
• Hands-on practice verifying images and claims with free, mobile-friendly tools.
• An understanding of algorithmic bias, echo chambers and why credible information is a public good.
• A ready-to-use lesson plan and trainer's guide, so the skill keeps spreading after we leave.

What we've achieved

• 25+ workshops delivered across six states.
• 2,400+ participants trained, from schoolteachers to community radio hosts.
• 300+ educators now teach MIL in their own classrooms.
• Local-language materials in English and Hausa, free for anyone to reuse.

From the field