As such, schools have begun a push toward media literacy in the classroom, a push that has now spilled into the halls of state houses and Congress. Many of these lessons aim to teach kids how to ...

“Media literacy is an essential life skill,” says Bobbie Eisenstock, a journalism professor at California State University—Northridge. “It’s probably more critical now than it ever has ...

Literacy is the ability to encode and decode symbols and synthesize and analyze messages. But what, exactly, is media literacy then? The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE ...

Media literacy is the practice of taking in media messages and understanding their influence on your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. In an increasingly technology-focused world, it's a skill people ...

Are you media literate? The 10th annual U.S. Media Literacy Week Oct. 21-25 is your chance to answer that question, and to celebrate the importance of critical thinking about media as a ...

College students say digital resources would help them improve their media literacy skills, but few examples are available for this group. Young people today spend a large amount of time online, with ...

In North Salem, New York, a seventh-grade media literacy class has been preparing for that challenge by learning how to have difficult but empathetic conversations. "One of the most important ...

An overwhelming majority of teens (94 percent) want their schools to teach media literacy, although just 39 percent reported having had any such instruction during the 2023-24 school year, according ...

Payne’s school, Baldwin High School in Baldwin, New York, is one of a rising tide of schools across the country trying to incorporate media literacy education into their curriculum. Across the ...

But, even with the threat of artificial intelligence-generated images, audio and video, the same simple media literacy tips that helped identify misinformation in previous elections still work today.

Global Media and Information Literacy Week is an annual event observed from 24 th to 31 st October to raise awareness and celebrate the progress achieved towards Media and Information Literacy for all ...

Media literacy education aims to help students to participate in the complex digital media environment that they find themselves in today. Sometimes there can be a tendency to think about media ...