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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
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, November 3
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Media Literacy Week
3rd Annual
United States Media Literacy Week
November 6 - November 10, 2017
#MediaLitWk
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Headlines
ASU, Facebook, Kansas City Star
Announce News Co/Lab
Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication has launched News Co/Lab in partnership with the Facebook Journalism Project and the Kansas City Star. News Co/Lab (pronounced "collab"), is a collaborative lab aimed at creating, testing, and promoting innovations that will help strengthen transparency and trust between news providers and consumers.
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The LAMP's 22x20 Campaign
featured in Teen Vogue
A journalist for Vogue magazine describes her experiences as a civic-minded teen, which led her to get involved with The LAMP's 22x20 campaign. The campaign empowers the 22 million new teen voters in 2020 to have an active voice in upcoming elections, at national and local levels.
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KBIA: What are Media Representations?
Mid-Missouri public radio station KBIA discusses the concept of media representations and how these images and ideas impact how consumers view various cultures and individuals in society.
Project Look Sharp and Newseum
Host Media Literacy Workshop 
This summer, Project Look Sharp, the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), and Newseum facilitated media literacy training and teachings for a wide variety of educators at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Content included how to integrate media literacy into curriculum materials, creating an inquiry-based and interactive classroom, and preparing students to critically analyze their confirmation bias. [read more]
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Mark Your Calendars
International Children's Media Conference
Istanbul, Turkey
Digital Media Literacy & Technology Tools for Early Learning
Pittsburgh, PA
U.S. Media Literacy Week
Nationwide
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M-Passion
ed: Meet our Members
Teacher Preparation
Media Studies
Haifa University, Israel
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Media literacy is a rebellious activity since it is promoting critical thinking skills. Social media created personal democratic spheres and misconceptions of what is real and what is reality. Our leaders go against established newspapers, networks, and liberal ideas. Intellectual scholars are accused of betraying the government. This is the time for our community to be there as an eye opener and a defender of freedom of speech, a torch for seeking the truth and to raise a voice for rights of minorities. Media literacy does not tell you what to think or what to believe, it gives you skills to do so.
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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: Emerging Learning Design 2018
The Emerging Learning Design Conference (ELDc) 2018 is accepting proposals for its 8th annual conference to be held May 31-June 1, 2018, on the campus of Montclair State University. ELDc18 seeks to bring together diverse voices and innovative approaches to designing with the learner in mind. This year's theme is "From Learner Centered to Learner Experience (LX)."
PD: "Fighting Fake News"
Educator Workshops
Newseum Ed presents "Fighting Fake News: How to Help Your Students Outsmart Trolls and Troublemakers," a workshop where teachers will learn a practical approach to helping students avoid one of the major pitfalls of today's digital media: falling for fake information. The workshop includes an interactive lesson with a Newseum educator, teaching strategies, and resources. This class requires a minimum of 12 educators and a maximum of 36 in the Learning Center classroom. [
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CFP: 2nd International Media Literacy Research Symposium
The International Media Literacy Research Symposium is now accepting proposals and abstracts for its 2nd annual conference to be held April 19-20, 2018, in Lisbon, Portugal. Papers and presentations should explore how media literacy can be a voice in discussions on municipal and national levels.
Submission deadline: Nov 4
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Resources
A Parent's Guide to Media Literacy
NAMLE partnered with
Trend Micro to create, "Building Healthy Relationships with Media: A Parent's Guide to Media Literacy" to assist families in starting media literacy conversations at home. The guide focuses on one simple idea: teach your kids to ask questions. With real-life examples of conversations that may come up at home, the guide provides parents with some simple ways to encourage critical thinking at home.
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Scholastic: Fake Data Fuels Fake News
Scholastic discusses how misleading mathematical calculations are presented in graphic form in 90 percent of news stories and provides a quick, inquiry-based exercise to help students identify incorrect data/information in news stories.
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Eric Rasmussen, an assistant professor of public relations in the Texas Tech University College of Media & Communication, has written a new book titled, "Media Maze: Unconventional Wisdom for Guiding Children through Media," which provides parents with useful strategies designed to give kids knowledge and tools to determine which media messages are helpful and which are harmful.
Study: YouTube, Alcohol Ads,
and Underage Viewers
A new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs found that YouTube videos depicting the alcohol brands favored by underage youth are heavily viewed on the platform by youth. The majority of the ads were identified as traditional or narrative advertisements, making them a form of promotion that could be linked to underage drinking.
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Activity: E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News 
This activity from Newseum Ed, designed for middle and high school students, uses a downloadable poster to teach students a handy acronym to help them remember six key concepts for evaluating information
(evidence, source, context, audience, purpose, and execution), which they can then test in teams.
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Employment Opportunities
Assistant Professor of Convergent Media
College of Media
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL [
more info
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Lecturer in Media Production
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY [
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Teen Media Program Coordinator
Community Art Center
For more listings, visit our organizational
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