Newletter October 2017 There’s no doubt: fake news, biased sources, trustworthy information are the hot topics of our day, thanks to President Donald J. Trump, the person who’s done more for calling attention to the need for media literacy education than any leader in recent memory. These hot topics lead to deeper discussions, as well. […]

The full News Literacy course, developed at Stony Brook University, organizes the material into 8 concepts that are spread amongst our 14 week course that take students from the first information revolution of Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press to the Digital Age of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook. Each lesson stands alone or can easily be integrated into […]

People deal in varying ways with tensions about what information to trust and how much they want to learn. Some are interested and engaged with information; others are wary and stressed. When people consider engaging with facts and information any number of factors come into play. How interested are they in the subject? How much […]

Chastened by the negative effects of social media, Mark Zuckerberg says he will tweak his service and upgrade society in the process. Should any company be that powerful? About 10 years after TVs began to be ubiquitous in American homes, television broadcasting was a staggering financial success. As the head of the Federal Communications Commission […]

In “Fighting Fake News: How to Help Your Students Outsmart Trolls and Troublemakers,” teachers will learn a practical approach to helping students avoid one of the major pitfalls of today’s digital media: falling for fake information. They’ll examine real-life case studies that bring to life the challenges of today’s media landscape and model an easy-to-remember […]

The Media Education Lab offers free webinars twice a month, on Tuesdays at 8 PM EST. These events feature a range of topics and issues related to digital and media literacy education. Webinars are free and open to the public. Link: http://mediaeducationlab.com/webinars-fall-2017Author: Media Education LabSource: Media Education Lab

This lesson encourages students to draw upon digital literacy to research and to discuss memories of September 11, 2001. The series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the U.S. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 continue to deeply affect U.S. identity and politics. Through an online academic forum, students compare […]