Monthly Update
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February 2020
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Save the Date: Media Literacy Week 2020
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We hope you will join us for the sixth annual Media Literacy Week from October 26-30, 2020! It's never too early to start thinking about activities, lessons, or events that you can do to celebrate Media Literacy Week, which is just one week before the 2020 U.S. elections. We'll be updating
our website
in the coming months with tools and resources that you can use. And if you have any ideas or suggestions about what NAMLE can do to make Media Literacy Week a success, let us know at
namle@namle.net
. Stay tuned for more information!
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Media Literacy in the News
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“You can start when children are very young. In fact, you should.”
This story from the
Guardian
looks at the results of Finland's media literacy curriculum which aims to engage students to become active, responsible citizens and voters by being able to detect various types of false information. The curriculum, created in 2014 after the country was first targeted by fake news, teaches critical thinking, fact checking, interpreting and evaluating. [
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How to Raise Media-Savvy Kids in the Digital Age
In this article from
Wired
, media literacy experts, including NAMLE founding president Faith Rogow, encourage parents to get their children to think critically about the media they’re consuming, by instilling basic media literacy skills early in life. The article includes age-appropriate ideas and resources to start incorporating media literacy at home. [
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Angelina Jolie to produce BBC Show to help kids spot fake news
NBC News
writes about how actress Angelina Jolie and the BBC will produce a show that explains the stories behind news and provides information that can help students over the age of 13 become media literate about important international issues. [
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M-Passioned: Meet Our Members
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Scott Clarke
Associate Professor, Digital Communication
School of Arts and Humanities
Black Hills State University
"I became a NAMLE member because I am passionate about media literacy. I am pushing for a media literacy course at my university that would be required of all graduating students because I see a growing distrust of anything presented in the news among my students. They assume that all political information is biased, and not worth their time. They also want to live inside a media bubble, listening only to news that agrees with their own views." [
learn more
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Kidscreen Summit
Miami, FL
Feb 10-13
Communicating Diversity Conference
Texas A&M University
Mar 26-27
Broadcast Education Association Convention (BEA) 2020
Las Vegas, NV
Apr 18-21
What Is Information?
University of Oregon
Portland, OR
Apr 30 - May 2
Media & Learning 2020
Leuven, Belgium
Jun 17-18
World Literacy Summit
Oxford, United Kingdom
April 5-8
International Media Literacy Research Symposium
Porto, Portugal
June 18-19
Critical Media Literacy Conference of The Americas
Oakland, CA
October 17-18
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Do you have event or other organizational information you would like included in our Monthly Update?
Email us
with the subject "Update."
Next submission deadline:
March 3, 2020
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Apply: MediaWise Campus Correspondents
The Poynter Institute’s MediaWise Voter Project
is hiring 10-15 college students to serve as Campus Correspondents
for a paid opportunity to spot misinformation online, find reliable information about the 2020 U.S. election, and learn how to train their peers on these important skills.
Selected students will earn $1,000 per month while
school is in session until the election in November. Application deadline: February 14 [
learn more
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CFP: Media Arts Symposium
The theme for the 2020 Matters of Arts & Design Education symposium, at Penn State University in College Park, Pennsylvania on April 18, will focus on how digital technologies are being learned in media arts education. The Media Arts Coalition of Educators is seeking proposals for presentations exploring new media in social justice and creating global and intercultural dialogue concerning the media arts. Proposal deadline: March 1 [
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CFP: World Alliance for Arts Education Summit
The World Alliance for Arts Education is hosting a summit October 26-29 at the University of Florida in Gainesville. This event invites primary and secondary school arts educators, higher education professionals, arts education researchers and policymakers, national, state and local education officials from across the world to submit proposals that discuss evidence-based practices aimed at measuring impact of arts learning and arts programming. Proposal deadline: March 20 [
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Apply: $10,000 STEM Grant for Title 1 Schools
The Siemens Foundation and Discovery Education welcome submissions to the 2020 Possibility Grant Sweepstakes.
The 2020 Possibility Grant Sweepstakes offers Title 1 K-12 schools across the United States an opportunity to win a $10,000 STEM grant that can be used to purchase STEM supplies, technology, or be used in any STEM-related lab. Open through April 28, 2020, educators and educational professionals are encouraged to enter daily for a chance to win.
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CFP: Critical Media Literacy Conference
The Critical Media Literacy Conference of The Americas, at California State University in Oakland from October 17-18, is inviting critical media literacy researchers, students, and educators to participate in presentations, discussions, and workshops focused on a critical approach to media literacy education. Proposals can address, but are not limited to, digital culture, media activism and advocacy, media representation, and others. Proposal deadline: June 19 [
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Updating the 5Ws for a New Media Literacy
The Connected Learning Alliance encourages people to revisit the questions who, what, where, when, and why. While these questions are still as important as ever, technology and the explosion of content has changed how to access, evaluate, and disseminate information. Here are some different ways to ask the 5Ws for a fast-paced and information-saturated world. [
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NYT Learning Network Lesson of the Day
A new version of “Sesame Street” will be made available to children displaced by the war in Syria. In this lesson from The New York Times Learning Network, students will learn more about the show using media literacy skills and apply those same skills to analyzing other children’s TV shows.
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Civic Literacy: Growing Voters
The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) published a list of 18 ways that youth under 18 years old can contribute to elections. Some tips include supporting family and friends' participation and researching issues and policies that come up during the election cycle. [
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CPB & Sesame Workshop Announce New Project
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop announced a new research project to investigate and understand the media habits of children ages 8-18. The project will identify how public media can engage young audiences and adapt to their evolving media practices. [
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Facebook Media Literacy Initiatives
In October, Facebook announced an investment of $2 million to support media literacy projects that empower people to make informed decisions on what to read and share online.
MediaWise and
NAMLE’s Organizational Partners News Co/Lab, and PEN America joined as partners to create new programs and resources for people ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections. [
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Executive Director
Michelle Ciulla Lipkin
Associate Director
Donnell Probst
Program Assistant
Kyle Plantz
Executive Board
Tony Streit, President
David Kleeman, Vice President
Kimberley Moffitt, Secretary
Gonca Latif-Schmitt, Treasurer
Erin Reilly, Past President
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Director of Innovation, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
Library Media Specialist
Lincoln Street Elementary School
Exeter, NH
Lecturer in Communication
University of Memphis
Jackson, TN
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