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onthly Update
Donnell Probst
Content Editor
Executive Director
Michelle Ciulla Lipkin
Board of Directors
Erin Reilly
President
Sherri Hope Culver
Past President
Kelly Whitney
Vice President
Joanne Parsont
Secretary
Tony Streit
Treasurer
Kristi Avram
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, September 8
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edia Literacy Week
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
School librarians teach
CRAAP to fight fake news 
USA Today outlines how school librarians
are teaching students CRAAP, an acronym that stands for Currency (timeliness), Relevance (importance),
Authority (source),
Philadelphia Inquirer: Navigating
punishing, riveting news cycles
NAMLE board member and past President, Sherri Hope Culver, provided commentary on the impact of social media on the news cycle in the age of Trump.
Students get media literacy
lesson on trip to Greece
Students from a Carlsbad, California high school traveled to Greece to film the story of the migrant crisis they were not seeing on television. [
read more]
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Mark Your Calendars
Event: "Unraveling #fakenews from
opinion-making information"
United Nations Headquarters
New York, 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
Citizen Journalist
Professor,
Cihan University
"Information is available in dozens of written, auditory and visual formats, including reading and writing in the media. It is very necessary to be able to understand the media message provided to them from different media. The use of modern technology in the media and education are two paths that go together towards raising awareness and creating a new generation that are more powerful and interactive."
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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
Teachers: Win a Trip to 
the 9/11 Memorial in NYC
Teachers can enter to win an expense-paid trip to visit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City thanks to a partnership between the National Youth Leadership Council, Teach for America, and the Corporation for National & Community Service.
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Resources
Curriculum:
The Mask
You Live In
The Representation Project has announced the release of the Second Edition of The Mask You Live In
 curriculum that can be utilized in youth-facing programs. The $350 curriculum and license includes an educational DVD with the feature film and supplemental video clips, the new curriculum for K-5, middle and high school, and college/university students, as well as unlimited rights to use the curriculum and host screenings.
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Workshop & Curriculum:
What's the REAL DEAL about Truth & Power
The REAL DEAL workshops are designed for classroom teachers, after-school teachers, community mentors or youth empowerment educators and include the movies, curriculum and contest kit. The lessons in the Truth & Power curriculum are designed to educate and ignite the power within our young people, to challenge societal norms affecting their lives.
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Report: Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
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Employment Opportunities
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
The News Literacy Project
Assistant Professor, Media and Intersectionality
University of Oregon
Director of Library Media Services
Oklahoma City Public Schools
Assistant Professor,
Digital Humanities and New Media
Molloy College
Director of Media Education and Partnerships
Community Media Access Partnerships (CMAP TV)
Assistant Professor, Media Studies
Lebanese American University
For more listings, visit our organizational
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