School Librarians as Leaders for Media Literacy

School librarians are the information literacy experts in all schools that have a librarian. They often build relationships with all students in their schools across many years, and they have relationships with all educators in their buildings and awareness of all curricular areas. They are trained in the pedagogy of inquiry and deep experience in collaboration. And school librarians have the commitment to being the guardians of well-reasoned thinking about credibility, sourcing, and truth. This interactive webinar will showcase the work of Project Look Sharp in training and supporting school librarians to be leaders for media literacy in their schools, including PD resources and information about efforts to scale this work up on a national level.

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

UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education (DCMET) Symposium 2023

Structure, Organization and Activities
The 2023 International Symposium will involve a hybrid series of presentations, dialogues, keynotes, cultural activities and engagements over a four-day period focused on Peace, Culture and Social Justice.

Everything will be disseminated open-access via ZOOM and Facebook Live, then uploaded to DCMÉT’s YouTube channel with the consent of presenters.

We are planning for roughly 18 sessions in English and 7 in French and 10 in Spanish. We will also have approximately10 sessions in Korean as well as 4 keynotes that will be simultaneously interpreted.

The one-hour sessions will be structured as dialogues with 3-4 presenters around themes that will be cultivated and developed through several meetings before the Symposium. A central focus will be on peace, culture and social justice with critical overlapping analysis and engagement emphasizing overlapping themes, such as democracy, global citizenship, transformative education, Indigenous knowledge, rights, development and reconciliation, social media, the environment, and solidarity.

Two program coordinators for each language are responsible for developing the sessions, and they are also members of the Organizing Committee, which will be led by Paul R. Carr (the Chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair DCMÉT) and co-chaired by Gina Thésée (the Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair DCMET). There is also a local organizing committee in Seoul, and a communications sub-committee that will coordinate media relations and dissemination in the four languages ​​of the Symposium.

Podcast Mini Series

Allyed and Shifting Schools are hosting a special three part mini series to help educators sustain the conversation and continue their learning. Starting on Monday of Media Literacy Week, and the following Mondays for those three weeks, a new episode drops!

Escape The Echoes – A Media Literacy Escape Game

Escape The Echoes is a one-hour educational escape game that helps students develop media literacy skills through an engaging, team-based gaming experience.

The game requires teams to navigate through a series of digital media puzzles and activities that involve the utilization of one or more media literacy skills. Specifically, the game focuses on the formation of media filter bubbles and their impact on human behavior and society. The game is designed to be played in an in-person, virtual, or hybrid setting at schools or other educational institutions.

Join using this link.