Are you media literate? 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 ...

Across Michigan, civics and social studies are disappearing from K-12 school curriculums, while children and young adults ...

SPRINGFIELD — A survey of Illinois educators reveals a significant disparity in how they interpret a three-year-old state law’s requirement to teach high school students a “unit of instruction” on ...

In the spring of 2024, we set out to improve student engagement in my digital media literacy course by listening to students and parents regarding their concerns. What emerged was a shared sense of ...

Media literacy is an essential skill for the digital age; it shapes critical thinking and prepares students to enter civic life. Credit: Getty Images. We live in the age of artificial intelligence and ...

Teachers and high school students live in vastly different media worlds, and that's one of several digital divides that undermine the efficacy of state-mandated media literacy instruction in Illinois ...

This post was updated Jan. 27 at 7:41 p.m. UCLA claims its purpose is the “creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge.” Yet today’s students are consuming more information than ...

The global market intelligence firm International Data Corporation estimated in 2024 that more data had been created in the three preceding years than in all of history before that. With this trend ...

Seven media organizations from the Western Balkans and Turkey are announcing an open call for the one-year Regional Academy for Future Leaders of Change on Media Literacy and Activism. The ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A survey of Illinois educators reveals a significant disparity in how they interpret a three-year-old state law’s requirement to teach high school students a “unit of instruction” ...