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onthly Update
Donnell Probst
Content Editor
Executive Director
Michelle Ciulla Lipkin
Board of Directors
Erin Reilly
President
David W. Brown
Past President
Kelly Whitney
Vice President
Joanne Parsont
Secretary
Tony Streit
Treasurer
Kristi Avram
Sherri Hope Culver
David Kleeman
Cynthia Lieberman
Lynette Owens
Nicole Starr
Federico Subervi
DC Vito
Leadership Council
Rachel Arteaga
Caitlin Barry
Karl Carter
David Cooper Moore
Elizaveta Friesem
Yonty Friesem
Kelsey Greene
Jaclyn Kahn Siegel
Emily Keating
David Magolis
Dee Morgenthaler
Tina Peterson
Theresa Redmond
Rebecca Reynolds
Laurie Chin Sayres
Eveline
Schilder
Julie Smith
Benjamin Thevenin
Jiwon Yoon
Student Leadership Council
Emily Bailin
Catherine Burgess
Roma Dash
Nneka Gigi
Donnell Probst
Alexis Romero
Zoey Wang
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The purpose of
media literacy education is to develop the habits of inquiry and skills of expression needed by critical thinkers, effective communicators, and active citizens in today's world.
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What's new with you?
Tell us and we'll include it in a future issue of Update. We are especially interested in updates from our student, individual and organizational members.
Next submission deadline:
Friday, August 7
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Conference News
Conference Highlights
Thank you to all of those
of you that joined us in Chicago for Conference 2017.
filmed at Conference 2017 with
NAMLE Executive Director, Michelle Ciulla Lipkin!
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edia Literacy Week
Save the Date:
3rd Annual
United States Media Literacy Week
November 6 - November 10, 2017
#MediaLitWk
It's not too early to start planning your MLW events and activities.
Follow the US Media Literacy Week
website
for updates and schedule of events across the country!
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Headlines
Philadelphia Inquirer Promotes
Media Literacy Education 
The Philadelphia Inquirer mentions NAMLE in a discussion about using media literacy education as part of the core curriculum to fight fake news.
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Irish Times: MediaWise Resource for
Primary-School Teachers
The Irish Times discusses advertising that targets children and how MediaWise, a new media literacy resource created for primary-school teachers, can be used to promote critical thinking about media and prevent the negative effects of targeted branding.
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Forbes: Negative Media Portrayals
Impact Millennials Of Color
Media literacy professor
Tony Weaver, Jr. discusses how media representations can negatively impact young adults of color and how the principles of media literacy education can reduce those negative effects.
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Legislation
Connecticut Passes Media Literacy Law
Connecticut legislators have passed a law that will help to elevate media literacy education in the state's public schools. The new law will help schools to meet the requirement by bringing together experts and state resources to identify best practices and methods of instruction so students will learning to safely, ethically, responsibly and effectively consume and create media using the array of technologies available.
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Mark Your Calendars
Digital Citizenship Summit Nigeria
Global News Literacy Conference 2017
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
2017 Digital Media & Learning Conference
University of California
Irvine, CA
U.S. Media Literacy Week
Nationwide
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M-Passion
ed: Meet our Members
Consultant,
Arts Education Programs
Teaching artist
"I am currently preparing to lead the Yesler Terrace Youth Media Project in Seattle, WA this summer. YT Media is an annual summer workshop that uses photography & video to give local youth and community members the opportunity to document the impact of gentrification & displacement in their communities. I am designing a curriculum for this summer where youth will be challenged to create media based portraits that reflects their identity in relationship to their community."
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Want to recommend an M-Passioned NAMLE member who should be in our next feature? Contact Evelien Schilder at
[email protected].
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Opportunities
CFP: YALSA at ALA 
Annual Conference 2018
YALSA has opened up its call for program proposals for the ALA Annual Conference which will be held in New Orleans, LA,
June 22 - 26, 2018. Proposals should be appropriate for youth age 12-18 and focus on
topics like partnerships, learning outcomes & evaluation, connected learning, learning spaces, making, digital literacy, college & career readiness, workforce development for library staff, etc.
Submission deadline: Aug 25 [
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CFS: Media Literacy Book Chapter
This is a call for proposals for book chapters for a book on digital media, transformative education and democratic praxis called Media Literacy 2.0: From Techno-Fetishism and Moral Panic to Critical Democratic Classroom Praxis. Potential themes include digital literacies, media literacy, teaching and learning, and media/social activism and democracy.
Submission deadline: Sept 1 [
email submission
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Resources
New Issue of The Journal of 
Media Literacy Education
Volume 9, Issue 1 of The Journal of Media Literacy Education, a publication of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, has been released on the open source University of Rhode Island digital commons.
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Factitious: Game Tests Fake News IQ
A new open source media literacy game tests users' ability to detect fake news from real. The game's interface mimics the dating app Tinder, having players swipe left when they think the article in front of them is fake, and right when they believe it's real.
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Google for Education Announces
Media Literacy Apps
At ISTE 2017, Google for Education announced a new bundle of media literacy apps for Chromebooks: Scrible and eSpark Frontier. The tools are designed to support students as they research and write using contemporary online information and help students form opinions about the media they consume.
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Librarian Authored Media 
Literacy Lessons
The Media Literacy Clearinghouse has begun compiling a list of media literacy lessons authored by librarians. Librarians are invited to
submit lessons to Frank W. Baker to be hosted on the MLC website.
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Employment Opportunities
Faculty, Digital Filmmaking
Nanyang Technological University
Film Instructor
Spy Hop Productions
For more listings, visit our organizational
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