News Literacy, a curriculum developed at Stony Brook University in New York over the past eight years, is designed to help students develop the critical thinking skills needed to judge the reliability and credibility of information, whether it come via print, television or the Internet. This is a particularly important life skill in the Digital […]
Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens
COURSERA – starts April 3, 2017 About this course: 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 […]
How Digital Games can Support Peace Education and Conflict Resolution.
Since video games rose to popularity in the early 1970s, they have been maligned by a media narrative that associates them with violence, addiction and antisocial behaviour. Their popularity with youth, a persistent media emphasis on violent content and a sense that they challenge social norms and values produced a moral panic once reserved for […]
Youth Engagement and News Literacy
This series looks at news literacy initiatives around the world (outside the United States) that have been created by or that could involve news publishers. There are 7 reports and a database of 130 examples. The series was commissioned by the American Press Institute to help guide its own thinking about new work and conducted […]
The Concerned Parent’s Toolbox – 120 Tools and Tricks to Protect Your Kids
Protecting your children online can seem like a daunting task. There always seem to be threats from new angles cropping up on the 5 o’clock news. Children these days are more attached to the internet than ever from an earlier age. There are a number of useful tools that can help you protect your child […]
Artists for Literacy
AFL’s mission is to influence community, public and private sector support for literacy. We engage artists and educators in the issue of literacy and channel their contributions into effective awareness and education tools. We advocate for literacy as defined by the capacity to understand, interpret and communicate effectively in order to participate in one’s community […]
Unified Media Council
based media organization having strong working experience to deliver the best media techniques for the young journalists and especially for the women journalists in Pakistan. Eco friendly atmosphere and climate change training are specialty of UMCP. We are a large number of resource team in all over Pakistan with best Reporters, Anchors, NLEs, Producers and […]
Should we ban advertising to children?
A proposal currently under consideration by the European Parliament would result in a complete ban on advertising and ‘commercial communications’ targeting children. But what is the logic for such a ban – and what unintended consequences might it have, especially for children’s television? Link: https://davidbuckingham.net/2017/03/01/should-we-ban-advertising-to-children/Author: David BuckinghamSource: David Buckingham blog
ECFOLI
Implemented from March 2015 to February 2017, ECFOLI is an innovative Media education and Information Literacy (MIL) project aiming at fostering sustainable conflict resolution strategies through the study and ownership of the common Mediterranean culture, in particular local cultural heritage. The project overall involves 5 different countries: Portugal, Palestine, Cyprus, Morocco and France, with Youth […]
CONNECT!ONS (Jan 2017)
Consortium for Media Literacy – Volume No. 88 January 2017 – In This Issue… Theme: Truth in Consequence: Citizenship in a Digital Age Part 2 This continues our discussion of the power shift in the media ecosystem, and what it means to be a citizen in a digital age. Interview Highlights CML interviewed two digital […]
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