U.S. Media Literacy Week

Same Facts, Different Language
2025-10-28 15:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Why do two outlets tell the “same” story with different language? See how angles, sources, and media biases shape how the facts are presented —and leave with a simple checklist for cutting through the noise.

"Scream" Movie Night with The Rapidian & Media Literacy Week
2025-10-28 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | Wealthy Theatre, 1130 Wealthy St. SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49506, United States
On the next Tuesday Night Movie…
Wes Craven’s classic horror film “Scream” on the big screen! Presented with The Rapidian, in recognition of Media Literacy Week! “Scream” is one of the great meta horror films of all time. Not only a thrilling slasher, but a smart take on analyzing media consumption, genre conventions, and the influence of media on real-world perception.
U.S. Media Literacy Week advocates, educates, and brings together hundreds of partners for events and activities around the country. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of communication. A necessary, inevitable, and realistic response to the complex, ever-changing electronic media environment surrounding us. Learn more about Media Literacy Week at: https://mlw.namle.org/
Learn more about The Rapidian at: https://www.therapidian.org
Scream
Directed by: Wes Craven
Genre: Horror
Released: 1996
Runtime: 111 minutes
Rated: R

Courageous Conversations are coming to PBS LearningMedia
2025-10-28 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
We’re excited to announce a collection of free classroom resources created by Courageous RI, an initiative of the Media Education Lab. This collection of lesson plans, hosted on PBS LearningMedia and produced by Ocean State Media, features videos of Rhode Island students engaging in real, courageous conversations about issues that matter to them and their peers.
Political violence and radicalization are as present as ever, reinforcing the need for honest conversations around hard topics. We invite educators, students, and community members to join us as we introduce the resources, showcase highlights, and share strategies for using them to build media literacy skills, engage students in dialogue, and offer space for diverse perspectives in the classroom.

The Quality Question: How To Create High-Quality Children’s Media
2025-10-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Halifax) | Fordham University at Lincoln Center, 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
We know it when we see it (or hear it, or read it), but what qualities make content high-quality?
The Department of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University invites you to join the Children’s Media Association (CMA) and the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) for CMA’s first-ever crowdsourced panel led by creators within our community discussing what defines—and how to create—quality content.

Countering Information Manipulation: A Social Change Approach
2025-10-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Propaganda and disinformation are polluting our digital spaces and fueling our divisions as a society. Even casual conversations can feel fraught in these times. People care deeply about these realities but often don’t know what to do about them.
In this Media Literacy Week (MLW) talk, social change and communications strategist Deanna Troust will explore these dynamics and share simple but powerful ways each of us can be part of the solution set in addressing them.
Standards-based journalism — at the local level, especially — is a key antidote to the spread of false and harmful content. Deanna’s co-speaker will be a local Baltimore journalist who will offer a window into reporting processes in covering local Baltimore newsworthy events.
Deanna Troust is a communications strategist, consultant, and founder of truthincommon.org.
Deanna will be introduced by Dr. Stephanie Flores-Koulish, Professor of Education at Loyola University MD and Vice President for NAMLE’s Board of Directors.

Media Decoding Resource Demo: The Painted Church
2025-10-28 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
In this interactive Zoom session, Niki Casserly will demonstrate the use of a slide presentation developed as a resource for Media Literacy Week 2025 called The Painted Church. The workshop will include tips for leading similar media decoding sessions. Previous experience or training in Constructivist Media decoding is not required.

Focus Up: AI, Media, and the Battle for Attention
2025-10-29 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Thomson Reuters, New York, NY, United States
As the information ecosystem becomes more complex, blurred lines between fact and fiction pose new challenges to credibility, trust, and informed civic engagement. As part of the 11th Annual Media Literacy Week, the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and Thomson Reuters are partnering for a half-day event that will delve into the intersection of credibility and the attention economy, examining how speed, virality, and believability collide to create new vulnerabilities in how young people consume media.

Media Arts in the Age of Disinformation
2025-10-29 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Film at Lincoln Center, 144 W 65th St, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Join media arts practitioners, administrators, Teaching Artists, and youth from across New York state for a day of learning, connection, and resource-sharing across the media arts education field. Explore how to be ‘media literate’ in this age of technology and information overload through hands-on experiences, workshops, and discussions.

Think Smart, Share Smart: Becoming a Misinformation Detective
2025-10-29 10:30 - 11:00 (America/Halifax) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
You have the power to stop misinformation in its tracks. In this session, discover practical fact-checking tools and approaches that will strengthen your media literacy skills and help you share responsibly.

Conversation with McKenzie Sadeghi, AI & Foreign Intelligence Editor at NewsGuard
2025-10-29 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Halifax) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
McKenzie Sadeghi oversees NewsGuard’s work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and foreign influence, and in tracking state-sponsored propaganda. In a conversation with Deanna Troust of Truth in Common, she’ll share about current trends in disinformation and her reporting, which includes revealing a network of over 150 disinformation-spewing websites run out of Moscow by a former Florida deputy sheriff.

Assessing Reliability for Others: Conversation with a NewsGuard Analyst
2025-10-29 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Anyone who’s assessed the reliability of a news source knows how difficult it can be. Now try doing it across thousands of news sources. Think it can be done consistently and transparently? Join us for this rare and very candid conversation with NewsGuard Analyst Sofia Rubinson, senior editor of NewsGuard’s Reality Check newsletter. As a global leader in assessing information reliability, NewsGuard has a heavy weight on its shoulders. Let’s peel back the curtain and learn all about their processes and the many challenges they face to maintain trust and confidence in the service they provide.

Navigating Misinformation Today
2025-10-29 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Join us for an exploration of misinformation and disinformation in the digital age. Our panelists will decode the tactics used to manipulate and divide us, and how we can take productive steps to counter them. You’ll leave with practical tools for navigating today’s information landscape with confidence.
Register here: https://bit.ly/DemocracyHappyHour

Preparing Middle Schoolers for the Ups and Downs of Smartphones and Social Media with Jennifer Berger of Ready Set Screen
2025-10-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
This eye-opening presentation challenges the usual assumptions about how teens and kids can be safe, smart, and healthy in the digital age — and what media literacy is — and illuminates what kids actually need to thrive online. Drawing from 16+ years of classroom experience with more than 10,000 teens and two years of surveying and interviewing parents and their kids, Jennifer Berger offers a unique perspective as a community educator who witnessed media literacy education transform students. This isn’t another doom-and-gloom talk about social media dangers. Instead, you’ll learn how libraries, schools, and families can fill the critical gap in media literacy education, moving from awareness to meaningful action. Here’s the link to join!

Influence, Authenticity, and a Gendered Algorithm
2025-10-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Cedar Crest College, Miller Family Building, Allentown, PA, 18103, United States
Social media promises visibility and connection, yet these systems amplify some voices while silencing others. In this Media Literacy Week lecture, Dr. Elizabeth R. Ortiz ’01 explores how digital platforms reward certain performances of femininity and “authenticity” while constraining how women and other marginalized creators show up, speak out, and share their lives online. She invites us to see media literacy as a way to resist, redefine, and reclaim visibility in these systems built to keep us scrolling.

The Real Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Data Center’s Physical Impact on our Environmental
2025-10-30 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Halifax) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Have you considered the physical environmental impact of your digital space usage? Our panel of experts, ranging from a biomedical informatics scientist to community activists, breaks down the cost of artificial intelligence on our planet.

What’s it Like Reporting News Today? A Conversation with Editor of The Christian Science Monitor
2025-10-30 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Sooth.fyi is excited to host Christa Case Bryant, editor of The Christian Science Monitor, in this candid conversation about the complexities and considerations it takes to deliver the highest quality journalism in today’s charged information ecosystem.
Christa brings a valuable combination of national and international reporting experience gained over two decades in the news business, and she’s only the second woman to hold the role of Editor at CSM since its founding in 1908.
Join them for this fast-paced and transparent discussion. You don’t want to miss it.

Don’t Get Fooled: Using the CRAAP Test and Library Resources
2025-10-30 15:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Good research starts with knowing which sources to trust. This session will cover how to use the CRAAP Test to evaluate information and will highlight library resources—databases and LibGuides—that can guide you toward reliable, high-quality sources every time.

Media Literacy is for Everyone 2025
2025-10-30 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | Ocean State Media, 50 Park Ln, Providence, RI, 02907, United States
Join us for hands-on training designed for students, teachers, and community leaders alike. Together, you’ll get the tools to engage your community in media literacy education and worthwhile dialogue, including a guide with a mission statement, format suggestions, and activity ideas to share with your partners in this endeavor, whether that be your principal, faculty sponsor, students, or community members.
Hear directly from a panel of educators in various spaces who have successfully integrated media literacy with their communities, and take part in an interactive session where you can ask questions, share ideas, and start building your vision. Together, we can mobilize a generation of media literacy advocates!

Youth Council Media & Polarization Living Room Conversation
2025-10-30 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
How does the media impact you, your friends, and your family?
Has polarization impacted your relationships? What happened?
What role does social media play in shaping conversations about important issues? What has this looked like in your life?
Join Living Room Conversations’ Youth Council for a discussion on Media & Polarization as part of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) Media Literacy Week events.
Download the full conversation guide here: https://livingroomconversations.org/download/media-and-polarization/

Navigating the AI Era: Challenges and Opportunities
2025-10-30 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Crown Point Community Library, 122 N Main St, Crown Point, IN, 46307, United States
Join Crown Point Community Library for a panel discussion followed by a Q&A, with community experts exploring the positive and negative aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at school, work, and everyday life. This discussion is presented as part of U.S. Media Literacy Week.

Educators: Are You Concerned About AI?
2025-10-30 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Educators: Join this discussion to share your concerns about how GenAl works, privacy, cheating. copyright, bias, chatbots, environmental impact and pressures to use with experts who get it and fellow teachers, librarians and admin who want to share their concerns and ask questions in a supportive, trusted space.

2025 Media Literacy Awards Ceremony
2025-10-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Every year, NAMLE strives to honor those individuals and organizations that have demonstrated impactful service, practice, or efforts, which have significantly impacted the media literacy community and beyond. This year’s awards will be presented during the 11th Annual U.S. Media Literacy Week on Thursday, October 30th. Join us using this link!
Learn more about the awards and their descriptions here, and meet this year’s recipients here!
