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During the fall workshop, we’ll hear from several speakers who are using non-traditional platforms or approaches to disseminate important, high-quality news amidst a sea of misinformation.
This highly interactive presentation will demonstrate how inquiry-based, student-centered, curriculum-driven media analysis can engage even the youngest students in questions about what's true and what's not.
Influence, Bias, & Democracy is an hour-long presentation examining the notion of cognitive bias within the context of the basic communication model. We'll explore how modern media has fundamentally changed how we influence each other and how this can affect multicultural democracies.
Kendra Hodgson of Women Make Movies and Alexandra Peterson of Media Education Foundation will show clips from the week’s available films and discuss how to incorporate documentaries into your classroom as vehicles to explore key media literacy concepts.
This panel conversation, with composer and performer Molly Joyce, artist Kyah Probst and media literacy expert Elizaveta Friesem, will explore how media, such as music, art, and other forms of self-expression, can support inclusion and identity-making, especially for those with disabilities. Molly Read More
We need to move beyond the unhelpful term “fake news” to more precisely identify the common types of misleading, inaccurate and false information that we are likely to encounter in the runup to the elections. We will discuss motivations behind different types Read More
Project Look Sharp’s Director of Curriculum and Staff Development, Chris Sperry, will give an overview of free resources – including hundreds of lessons – for teaching about sourcing, accuracy and bias in media messages.
Join this conversation with PEN America, where they will highlight their recent report Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools.This report on book bans offers the first comprehensive look at the bans throughout the 2021-22 school year. Read More
At the end of 2021, the US Surgeon General declared a youth mental health crisis across the US. While the scope of the issue is enormous and lacking a single root cause, digital literacy can be a tool in our nation's toolbox Read More
With our digital engagement higher than ever, this is the time to reflect on our online behaviours and assess who has agency across the online landscape. As our relationship with technology and our online relationships with each other continue to evolve, how Read More
In this presentation, media literacy educators/scholars, Dr. Stephanie Flores-Koulish and Sr. Rose Pacatte will examine various depictions of teacher depictions in the media, past and present using the critical lenses of media literacy education, and discuss the implications of such depictions on the profession and especially the impact on this female-dominated profession.
Moderated by Media Literacy Now North Carolina’s Chapter lead, we’ll gather to create energy, inspiration, and action for growing media literacy in the state!
At this event, we will give a sample lesson of our beginner Python class that librarians can follow and take it back to their students in teen departments.
