Navigating the current pandemic requires that young people acquire an increasingly complex set of skills, such as understanding statistical data, evaluating the credibility and truthfulness of health information, analyzing the risks and benefits of a particular treatment or vaccine, and interpreting test results. An essential skill in 2021 is health media literacy.
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It’s Crucial for Kids to Learn Media Literacy: Here Are 4 Things You Can Do
From November 2 to November 6, the U.S. will celebrate the very first Media Literacy Week. The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), noting…
Media Literacy is More Than Technological Proficiency
When 50 million children and adolescents return to school this fall, they will be immersed in the core subjects of Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies…
Critical Media Health Literacy
Just when I think cultivating healthy kids and healthy schools is too much of an uphill battle, I am inspired by young people (and the…
A Journey to Media Literacy
A big digital knuckle bump to the European Association for Viewers’ Interests (EAVI) for creating a Ning community to magnify the principles of media literacy, especially to…
2013 Project Literacy Among Youth Catalog
[download brochure] 3.4 mg The 2013 catalog of PLAY courses and workshops is now available for download. You’ll find a variety of professional development offerings in the…
Media Literacy Summer Courses
Summer Professional Development 2012 Media & Technology Literacies: From Standards to Practice This 3-week online course focuses on the construction of standards-based curriculum and supporting…
An Education/Technology Tipping Point
Gadwell’s Tipping Point This week I facilitated a compelling discussion among my undergraduate pre-service teachers about the public purposes of education and schooling in the…
Live Chat: Fostering Digital Citizenship (Nov 7)
In conjunction with Canada’s Media Literacy Week, the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) is hosting a bi-national call to action in a live…
Media Literacy Week Nov 7-11
This year’s theme of Canada’s Media Literacy Week is Digital Citizenship. Media Awareness Network (MNet) and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) call on Canadians to…