Media literacy education teaches people how to critically understand, evaluate and even create media. That includes everything from the lyrics in a song to the headlines on a news site to what’s ...

Understanding media is one of the most valuable and practical abilities students today need to learn. Critical-thinking ...

A survey of Illinois educators reveals a significant disparity in how they interpret a state law’s requirement to teach high ...

Media literacy has become crucial as we surf the world full of saturated information. People are constantly bombarding us with new information in many different ways, including news, ads and 24/7 ...

This Dispatch is informed by our forthcoming 2025 article, “Media Literacy in the Crosshairs: NATO’s Strategic Goals and the Revival of Protectionist Pedagogy,” from the Journal of Media Literacy ...

A survey of Illinois educators reveals a significant disparity in how they interpret a three-year-old state law’s requirement ...

The literacy push already in place The 18 states that already require some form of media literacy classes have all implemented them in different ways, according to Media Literacy Now.

Media literacy is the ability to decode media messages – including the systems in which they exist – assess their influence on thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and create media thoughtfully ...

Fifteen states now encourage some form of media literacy education, compared with three in 2011, according to Media Literacy Now. Illinois last year became the first state to mandate such ...

Fake news and news literacy and community engagement sometimes feel like new topics — and especially urgent ones, given nightmare-come-to-life incidents like Pizzagate. But many people, including ...