During Media Literacy Week, Women Make Movies and the Media Education Foundation are excited to partner to bring you a selection of films that take a critical look at media images, messages, and the corporate systems that produce them.
These films will be available to watch throughout the week. Register using the link below and additional information about accessing the full films will be sent during Media Literacy Week!
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. Join PEN America’s Nadine Farid Johnson to discuss their findings. The conversation will feature insight from teachers working against these trends to ensure their students have the freedom to read.
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 for how we can help young people navigate the news and social media. Join this discussion to learn more about the connection between media literacy and mental health, and what media literacy interventions can have a positive impact.
Digital citizenship learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom. It occurs at home, in conversations online, with friends, at the library and many other moments. in libraries, at playgrounds, with friends and in quiet, contemplative moments. How can the larger school community help students learn to be safe and positive digital citizens?
This webinar will present some ideas for learning digital citizenship skills across a local community. Presented in partnership by Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, founder of Digital Respons-Ability and Sylvia Stein, the founder of StickTogether, attendees will leave with both out-of-the-box and out-of-the-classroom ideas.