“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your media literacy defines your ability to ask critical questions about the media you engage with every day. It captures how you create, use or share different media, as well as how you think ...

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 ...

For the last three years, our state has required a unit of media literacy (of which news literacy is a part) in all public high schools. The law defines media literacy as “the ability to access ...

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 ...

What’s different about me is how I think about all that content. I learned news and media literacy skills in high school: how to identify media bias, think critically about the information I see ...

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 ...