With social media, “we need to teach our kids what’s their agenda, what are they ultimately trying to sell?” warns Jamie ...

I saw how my peers struggled on an assignment to evaluate media coverage for bias. Opinion: Media literacy is having a moment. We can't lose momentum. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Open your favorite social-media platform and you’ll see dozens ... I’ve adopted and suggested this method: As part of the assignment, require students to critically evaluate how they used ...

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 ...

In the aftermath of this assignment, together we create a set of communal best ... A colleague recently told me about Courageous RI, a media literacy program run by the University of Rhode Island and ...

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 ...

In the UK, the National Literacy Trust reports that just 28 percent of children ... and instead of writing about it, speak about it. The assignment? Create a short, personal, and authentic video to ...