Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent. As news consumers are bombarded with a constant stream of fake news, propaganda, hoaxes, rumors, satire, and advertising — that often masquerade as credible journalism — it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. While the public’s faith in the […]
Pros and cons of digital media in girls’ lives in the global South
Spreading from high- through to middle- and low-income countries, adolescents are going online more, and more frequently, as they gain access to mobile phones, tablets, laptops or games consoles, along with other digital media devices and connectivity. But most adolescents in poor countries still lack access, and even for those who do, digital media are […]
Harnessing the Potential of ICTs for Literacy Teaching and Learning
The right to education as recognised by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights includes the acquisition of literacy, numeracy and other basic skills as a foundation for lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is a central principle of the international post- 2015 education agenda. In its Position Paper on Education Post-2015, UNESCO proposes that «flexible lifelong and […]
Student Essay Writing Competition
This Essay Writing Competition will run till 31 August 2017, we will be announcing 13 prize winners. So participate in our Essay Writing Competition to win cash prizes (top 3 winners) and all 13 top winners will get an opportunity to be our authors in our blog section, each month. We will inform the winners […]
Arresting Knowledge
Arresting Knowledge is a touring interactive docu-series designed to inspire critical thinking about media. The mission of Arresting Knowledge is to support a national conversation around media literacy that leads to incremental shifts in thinking and behavior. We’re committed to making complex information accessible to people of all education levels. There’s lots of talk about […]
How We Should Respond to Photographs of Suffering
Several years ago, while staring at a photograph of torture on the front page of the newspaper, I began seriously asking myself a question that many people had asked before: What should one do when faced with images of violence? I spent thirteen years researching the question, which became more urgent as those years passed […]
Center for News Literacy’s 2017 Global Conference
Papers presented at the Center for News Literacy’s 2017 Global Conference, Stony Brook University, USA Link: http://www.centerfornewsliteracy.org/globalconference2017/papers/Author: variousSource: Center for News Literacy
How false news can spread
In previous decades, most news with global reach came from several major newspapers and networks with the resources to gather information directly. The speed with which information spreads now, however, has created the ideal conditions for something called circular reporting. on a TEDed Noah Tavlin sheds light on this phenomenon. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSKGa_7XJkgAuthor: Noah TavlinSource: TED-Ed
Real things teachers can do to combat fake news
At the National Association for Media Literacy Education’s biannual conference in Chicago held in late June, Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, the organization’s executive director, explained to PBS NewsHour how teachers and librarians can help young people figure out which news sources are reliable, how to understand the role of bias in the media — as well […]
Net Positive, Internet Health Film Shorts
On Saturday, July 29, 2017, Rooftop Films and Mozilla presented a screening of thought-provoking short films about our favorite shared resource, the Internet. You can watch the films presented and discussed on the link. Link: https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/07/31/net-positive-internet-health-film-shorts/Author: MozillaSource: Mozilla
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