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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 fundamental life skill.
Media Literacy Now (MLN) is a nonprofit company that "teaches students to apply critical thinking to media messages, and to use media to create their own messages." [ 1 ] They advocate for this through "public awareness campaigns, policymaker education, coalition-building, and influencing regulations and legislation."
Referencing the multiple applications of literacy when it comes to politics, media, visual imagery, science etc. [2] Kress addresses the limitations to the idea of literacy and seeks to expand the idea of communications through writing. the "design" of writing, Kress muses, is the ability to generate changes in meaning and purpose in writing to ...
Media Literacy Week [9] is a national campaign annually hosted each October by MediaSmarts and the Canadian Teachers' Federation to promote digital media literacy, with activities and events taking place in classrooms, libraries, museums, and community groups through over 140 collaborating organizations.
The state of Illinois mandates media literacy lessons for high schoolers, and New Jersey requires the lessons for grades K-12. The goal is to encourage critical thinking among a tech-savvy generation.
In 2021 PIL launched the Provocation Series of occasional papers [33] on pressing issues around literacy, building on a solid decade of original research from PIL into students’ information practices in the digital age, other scholarship, and the flow of current events. [34] Each essay is accompanied by an author's reflection and discussion ...
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is an American nonpartisan national education nonprofit, based in Washington, D.C., that provides resources for educators, students, and the general public to help them learn to identify credible information, recognize misinformation and disinformation, and determine what they can trust, share, and act on.
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