In this interactive Zoom session, Niki Casserly will demonstrate the use of a slide presentation developed as a resource for Media Literacy Week 2025 called The Painted Church. The workshop will include tips for leading similar media decoding sessions. Previous experience or training in Constructivist Media decoding is not required.
This eye-opening presentation challenges the usual assumptions about how teens and kids can be safe, smart, and healthy in the digital age — and what media literacy is — and illuminates what kids actually need to thrive online. Drawing from 16+ years of classroom experience with more than 10,000 teens and two years of surveying and interviewing parents and their kids, Jennifer Berger offers a unique perspective as a community educator who witnessed media literacy education transform students. This isn’t another doom-and-gloom talk about social media dangers. Instead, you’ll learn how libraries, schools, and families can fill the critical gap in media literacy education, moving from awareness to meaningful action. Here’s the link to join!
Sooth.fyi is excited to host Christa Case Bryant, editor of The Christian Science Monitor, in this candid conversation about the complexities and considerations it takes to deliver the highest quality journalism in today’s charged information ecosystem.
Christa brings a valuable combination of national and international reporting experience gained over two decades in the news business, and she’s only the second woman to hold the role of Editor at CSM since its founding in 1908.
Join them for this fast-paced and transparent discussion. You don’t want to miss it.
Anyone who’s assessed the reliability of a news source knows how difficult it can be. Now try doing it across thousands of news sources. Think it can be done consistently and transparently? Join us for this rare and very candid conversation with NewsGuard Analyst Sofia Rubinson, senior editor of NewsGuard’s Reality Check newsletter. As a global leader in assessing information reliability, NewsGuard has a heavy weight on its shoulders. Let’s peel back the curtain and learn all about their processes and the many challenges they face to maintain trust and confidence in the service they provide.