Getting Started Today: Free Resources for Integrating Media Decoding throughout the K-12 Curriculum

Today’s educators are often excited about teaching media literacy with their students, but often don’t have the time to find media examples for decoding or ways to build media decoding into their already full curriculum. This highly interactive webinar will showcase Project Look Sharp’s free resources for educators – including more than 850 free media literacy lessons that use an inquiry-based, curriculum-driven, student-centered approach to building critical thinking and analysis skills from kindergarten through college. Teachers and librarians will come away with both the materials and PD resources to integrate media literacy immediately into their work with students, and to share with their administrators and colleagues.

When you register as a 2023 U.S. Media Literacy Week participant here, you’ll automatically be registered for this event.

Teaching Mindful Media Consumption

Join Learning for Justice for a webinar on critical media consumption! Joined by experts in the field doing the work from IREX and Columbia (Missouri) Public Schools, you will be introduced to media literacy concepts and how they can be used to resist manipulative information. In addition, the webinar will highlight real-world implementation models and resources for you to bring to your practice. This panel discussion will allow for real-time dialogue with expert co-hosts; you don’t want to miss it!

Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas

The Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas is committed to democratic ideals and social justice values. We relate to the media as a dialectical space for criticism and celebration. The media are complex tools whose effects do not always coincide with the intentions. The media can promote democratic participation, support social justice, and offer considerable joy, but they can hinder democracy, ignite violence, and manipulate individuals and society. Our goal for this conference is to facilitate critical discourse about our mediated society with the intention to deepen our understanding and support each other’s work in the transformation of society, to make it socially fairer and environmentally sustainable.