Young people are confronted with an immense volume of information on digital platforms shaped by algorithms, artificial intelligence and content creators with a wide variety of agendas. Tenk empowers young people with media and information literacy resources and skills that enable them to understand, manage, and navigate in today’s challenging information and media landscape.
We create educational materials and lesson plans for pupils, teachers, and libraries, addressing current themes such as misinformation, disinformation, polarisation, conspiracy theories, social media influencers, algorithmic content feeds, and AI-generated content. We focus on strengthening critical thinking and enabling pupils to reflect and discuss through open-ended questions and promoting active participation.
All of our educational resources are aligned with the Norwegian National Curriculum. Our lesson plans teach pupils critical thinking and critical reading, and provide them with tools to assess the trustworthiness of various sources, interpret and analyse texts and visual information, and understand how information and content are shaped and spread.
We also offer lectures, workshops, and provide online training courses about source awareness and media literacy for teachers, librarians, and other organisations. Tenk is staffed by teachers with extensive experience from all levels of education.
We collaborate with media literacy networks, universities, libraries, newspapers, and other organisations, both nationally and internationally. These partnerships enable us to develop key resources, including Talk!, which we developed as partners in the research project DigiGen, the interactive exhibition The Quest for the Truth, and the online course for librarians, Digital source awareness in the library.