This session for educators will focus on key strategies, questions, and inquiry activities for helping students dig deep into media messages. It will be live-streamed here.
Please join the Paul Meek Library at the University of Tennessee at Martin to celebrate Media Literacy Week with a special film screening of "Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and the CIA took Hollywood." The film looks at the influence of the US military on and behind the screen and will be following by […]
Artificial Intelligence has led journalists to question how they’ll report. While the benefits of AI include simplifying complex topics and assisting with questions for interviews, many find it can’t always be trusted. At this event presented in partnership with the Center for Communication, experts in the field from SmartNews, The Information, The Center for Public Integrity, Vanity Fair and more discuss […]
Earlier this year, Boston Children's Digital Wellness Lab & Roblox partnered together to conduct a study into what policy, education, and technological innovations would be necessary to facilitate a civil online world for young people. The study convened over 100 experts from around the globe into the Civility Working Group to develop a set of […]
Join NAMLE and SRVCE for a virtual workshop that explores media literacy in the context of political messaging. We’ll learn about how journalists cover elections, ways that political advertising seeks to persuade us, and tools for decoding media messages. When you register as a 2023 U.S. Media Literacy Week participant here, you’ll automatically be registered for […]
When a friend or loved one shares a viral hoax, fabricated photo or conspiracy theory, how do you respond? With the holiday season and a presidential election ahead of us, we can expect to encounter rumors and falsehoods along with heated debate. We each have an opportunity within our networks of influence to build understanding […]
Join a roundtable of five teachers to discuss how they’re approaching teaching critical media literacy at the high school level. Each teacher went through the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification credentialing program, which seeks to deepen educators’ understanding of how to bring media literacy and media making into preK-12 curricula. They’ll share insights they gained from the […]
Join Media Savvy Citizens for an online event where we'll equip you with an overview on how to get our students used to ways to find and judge reliable, valid information from credible sources on the internet. In today's digital age, it's crucial for students to discern reliable sources from unreliable ones. Their expert speakers […]
Cedar Crest College's Communication Department welcomes Elizabeth Ortiz for Media Literacy Week 2023! Join us on October 24th at 7:00pm for Elizabeth's lecture "Hi Barbie: Feminism & Gender Representation in Media" in The Miller Family Building room 33. Light refreshments will be served.
Conversations about the impact media and technology are having on youth are universal. But what about its effects on older generations? There are over 100 million people over the age of 50 in the United States and by 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be aged 60 years or older. What unique […]
This live conversation aims to help educators understand media literacy and how to help students understand and work within our current media landscape. Once you fill out this form, we'll email you with the Zoom link.
School librarians are the information literacy experts in all schools that have a librarian. They often build relationships with all students in their schools across many years, and they have relationships with all educators in their buildings and awareness of all curricular areas. They are trained in the pedagogy of inquiry and deep experience in […]
To complement the Media Literacy Week Film Festival, Kendra Hodgson of Women Make Movies and Alexandra Peterson of the Media Education Foundation will moderate a conversation with Dr. Katherine Sender, director of Beyond the Straight and Narrow and Lindsey Averill, the co-director of Fattitude. The panel conversation will dig into how these filmmakers approach their […]
Join this conversation between bestselling author Devorah Heitner and NAMLE Executive Director, Michelle Culla Lipkin as they discuss her new book Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World. They’ll address how educators, parents, and mentors can support young people navigating a reality where their lives are constantly open to public scrutiny […]
Escape The Echoes is a one-hour educational escape game that helps students develop media literacy skills through an engaging, team-based gaming experience. The game requires teams to navigate through a series of digital media puzzles and activities that involve the utilization of one or more media literacy skills. Specifically, the game focuses on the formation […]