Thomson Reuters, in partnership with NAMLE, is excited to announce our annual Media Literacy contest for students and classrooms!
We are the National Association of State Election Directors and the National Association for Media Literacy Education, nonpartisan, nonprofit, professional organizations here to answer your questions about how media literacy can help you make sense of what you read/see/hear about elections. Ask us anything!
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