Mobile Museum of Tolerance

The Mobile Museums of Tolerance offer a world-class learning experience, utilizing innovative technology and interactive lessons to bring its message of tolerance directly to schools and communities nationwide.

Session 1: Combat Hate: A Digital Media Literacy Workshop
Sunday, May 4 from 1:30-2:20 pm

This workshop equips students with tools to identify and critically analyze harmful media, resist online hate, and develop a positive social media presence. Focusing on safety and empowerment for young digital citizens, students discuss their own experiences with social media and online hate. Using tablet computers, students apply the Center for Media Literacy’s Five Key Questions to examine curated examples of online hate in small groups. The workshop also covers the consequences of online hate and the concept of a “digital footprint.”

Session 2: Fact or Fiction? Digital Media Literacy Workshop
Sunday, May 4 from 2:30-3:20 pm

This digital media literacy workshop helps students critically evaluate images and articles to determine their authenticity. Using tablet computers, students play a “Fact or Fiction” game, assessing the accuracy of presented information. Facilitators lead a discussion on the distinctions between fact, opinion, bias, and propaganda, exploring the motivations behind the creation of misleading images and articles.

About Mobile Museums of Tolerance

The first-of-its-kind in the United States, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Mobile Museums of Tolerance (MMOT) are free, traveling education centers utilizing innovative technology, interactive programs, and curricula to combat antisemitism and other forms of hate. The MMOT aims to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to promote human dignity by empowering them to raise their voices to combat antisemitism, bullying, racism, hate, and intolerance.