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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
Kim Osborne
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
Donnell Probst
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, April 7
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Conference News
2017 Conference To-Do List!
2) Register today for Conference 2017 to take advantage Early Bird rates!
See you in Chicago!
Any conference questions?
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President's Letter
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to participate and attend the News Literacy Working Group at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. It was convened in partnership with Facebook and brought together about 50 people from technology, journalism, philanthropy and education. Our goal was to identify problems, offer solutions and build relationships to take action together working across journalists, media companies, media literacy educators and the various outlets that disseminate the news in addressing the fake news issue.
Take a moment to read Dan Gilmor's blog post reflecting on the many insights and ideas from participating in the weekend.
Also, check out this visual illustrating the discussion.
And as a NAMLE member, we need your help in ensuring everyone is media literate. It starts with each of us individually taking the time to ask critical questions on the media we create, consume and share, but it's also about helping
your neighbor. Start a conversation and encourage others to form habits of inquiry. For some keen advice to share, check out Michelle talking with Brian Stelter from CNN.
Let's keep Media Literacy in the news and on the tips of everyone's tongue. Thanks for your help!
Erin B. Reilly
President, NAMLE
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Headlines
NAMLE Executive Director Appears on CNN
NAMLE's Executive Director, Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources to talk with Brian Stelter about Media Literacy.
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Washington Post: Five Ways Trump Can Become Media Literate
The Washington Post examines the source of President Trump's suggestion of terrorist attacks in Sweden as a roadmap for implementing media literacy skills.
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University Classifies Media 
Literacy Course as
"General Education"
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is offering a journalism class to help students determine which news outlets are more reliable than others. "News Literacy" is now classified as a general education course, and the UMass Amherst journalism department plans to offer it to more students.
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Huffington Post: Media And Information Literacy Prevent Violent Extremism
This Huffington Post article discusses how policymakers, media, educators, civil society and ordinary citizens can turn information into knowledge and reduce violent extremism. [read more]
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Mark Your Calendars
DIGITAL EngAGEment Conference
New York, NY
Chicago, IL
2017 Summer Institute in Digital Literacy
Providence, RI
View our full events calendar
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M-Passion
ed: Meet our Members
"There is a close relationship between the critical and close reading of books and the critical and close reading of the digital environment. Regardless of what students are reading-a paperback or an online article- I encourage them to ask the necessary questions such as, "Is this story fair? Who is included and who is left out? How does this text deal with individuals and with groups?" In doing so, I hope to do my part in creating a more democratic and socially conscious society."
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
CFS: CMCS 5th International Conference
The Center for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) is now accepting submissions for the 5th International Conference. The conference is open to submissions from individuals involved in all areas of television journalism. Working papers and media productions will be considered for the conference.
CFP: 2018 Intercultural 
Competence Conference
In 2018, CERCLL will host the Sixth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence which will focus on Intercultural Competence and Mobility: Virtual and Physical. Of particular interest are contributions that address the changing state of intercultural competence in a mobile world.
Submission deadline: May 22 [
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CFE: PLURAL+ Video Festival
The PLURAL+ Video Festival is now accepting video entries from youth aged 25 years and younger which highlight issues like migrant integration, inclusiveness, identity, diversity, human rights, xenophobia, and social unity.
Submission deadline: Jun 4 [
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Course: Promoting Digital 
Media Literacy in Students
This professional development course for teachers offered by PBS TeacherLine is designed to expand instructional knowledge of Internet-based research, and to help teachers learn to guide students through a process of finding information, evaluating sources, and applying new understanding to their inquiries.
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Resources
Report: Teens and Tweens 
Relationship with News
Common Sense released News and America's Kids, a report that explores how young people perceive and are impacted by the news. This report captures children's firsthand experiences with news and their take on how they're portrayed by news media.
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Letters to the Editor:
Teaching Civic Engagement
NCTE student member, Alex Dzurick, wrote an article for the NCTE blog about using letters to the editor as a tool to teach civic engagement and literacy skills.
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Report: How Youth Navigate 
the News Landscape
A new report from the Data & Society Research Institute and supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation finds that teens and young adults express low levels of trust in the news media and use a variety of strategies to confirm, verify, and clarify the stories about which they care. [read more]
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Employment Opportunities
FT Faculty, Communication and Media
North Shore Community College
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